Rocket Lab launched from the U.S. for the fourth time ever on Thursday morning (March 21), sending mystery payloads aloft for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-123 mission — or “Live and Let Fly,” as Rocket Lab called it — lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility …
Rocket Lab Launches Mysterious Spy Satellites In 4th-Ever US Liftoff. Read More »
The International Space University (ISU), in collaboration with ASPACE Satellite Technology Limited (ASPACE) and Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), has announced a fully funded tuition scholarship for the academic year 2025 to support ISU’s efforts to be inclusive in its student representation. ASPACE’s full-tuition scholarship is specifically designated for a single individual from underprivileged and …
ISU, In Collaboration With ASPACE and SGAC, Launches A Full Tuition Scholarship. Read More »
The Earth’s place in space is a fairly familiar one with it orbiting an average star. The star – our Sun – orbits the centre of our Galaxy the Milky Way. From here onwards, the story is less well known. The Milky Way is part of a large structure called the Laniakea Supercluster which is …
Astronomers Find the Most Massive Supercluster to Date. Read More »
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 21), and you can watch the action live. The rocket is scheduled to launch the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 9:21 a.m. EDT (1321 GMT; 6:21 p.m. …
Russian Soyuz Rocket Launch 3 Spaceflyers To The ISS On March 21. Read More »
Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to happen relatively soon, cosmically speaking. Researchers have predicted for some time that this planet, named WASP-12b, will eventually take a dive into …
Doomed Egg-Shaped Exoplanet Is Death-Spiraling Into Its Star. Read More »
A SpaceX Starlink launch lit up skies across the U.S. West Coast on Monday evening (March 18), leaving a dazzling trail seen for hundreds of miles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast Monday at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local time; 0228 GMT on March …
SpaceX’s Evening Starlink Launch Wows West Coast Skywatchers . Read More »
The first data from a new telescope array is in. The Condor Array has revealed a stunning look at a distant dwarf nova — a scene that offers astronomers a new, very-low-brightness view of the universe to marvel over. Condor is comprised of six refracting telescopes, which are united by computers to form a giant …
Boeing has started fueling up its Starliner capsule ahead of the vehicle’s first-ever astronaut launch. That mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), is currently scheduled to launch in early May atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida’s Atlantic coast. It will send NASA astronauts Suni Williams …
Boeing Begins Fueling Starliner Capsule Ahead of 1st Astronaut Launch. Read More »
According to Vanguard, the Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd (NIGCOMSAT Ltd) has commenced its VSAT installation project to provide satellite coverage for 579 Local Government Areas in Nigeria. This initiative utilises the Ku-band network asset of NigComSat-1R to support the Federal Government’s endeavour to cover all 774 Local Government Areas nationwide. In addition, phase one of …
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced the government’s plan to license the satellite internet network Starlink to operate in Ghana. According to her, this was part of the government’s efforts to address the internet disruption in the country. Briefing Parliament on the issue of internet disruptions on March 18, she said …
Government To License Starlink To Operate In Ghana – Ursula Owusu-Ekuful. Read More »
