Author name: Galaxy Aerospace Ghana

The Regional African Satellite Communication Organisation (RASCOM) has expanded its mandate to strengthen Africa’s satellite monitoring and governance capabilities through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kratos Communications and Liviasoft. The agreement was formalised during the Kratos and Liviasoft Satellite Monitoring Forum held in Doha, Qatar. The high-level forum convened industry leaders and government representatives […]

On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, about

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in

The Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Centre (LASAC) of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, which aims at advancing Gabon’s Earth observation capabilities. The agreement was formalised during the China-Africa Cooperation Centre

On Oct. 22, 1992, the space shuttle Columbia launched into space with the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek.” During mission STS-52, NASA astronaut and shuttle commander James Wetherbee brought a small container with a portion of Roddenberry’s ashes into space with him per the request of Roddenberry’s widow, Majel Barrett. It

On Oct. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. This was the last mission in the Zond program. After the first three Zond missions explored Venus and Mars, the next ones were circumlunar missions that flew around the moon before returning to Earth. Although there was

On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It lifted off aboard a Titan 4B rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It took almost seven years for Cassini to reach Saturn, with the spacecraft entering orbit around the ringed planet in 2004.

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. Yeager made his historic flight in a Bell X-1 rocket plane that he named “Glamorous Glennis” after his

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the “Whirlpool Galaxy,” also known as Messier 51, or M51. Charles Messier was scanning the sky for objects that could confuse comet hunters when he catalogued the galaxy as M51. However, Messier wasn’t able to see the spiral structure, and he didn’t identify it

On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112. This mission brought the Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to the International Space Station. The S1 truss is part of the backbone of the space station, and it provides structural support for the thermal control system. During the launch,