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Starship has been cleared for its second-ever liftoff. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today (Nov. 15) that it has granted a license for the second launch of Starship, SpaceX’s next-generation space transportation system. “The FAA has given license authorization for the second launch of the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy vehicle,” agency officials wrote …

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Intelsat and Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) are planning additional operations in Madagascar, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. AMN expects to build over 1,340 rural base stations across the three new markets. Intelsat and Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) have deployed more than 3,000 rural base satellite antennas across several African countries since 2018, thus …

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The 386th IAU Symposium, organised by the collaboration of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the Ethiopian Space Science and Geospatial Institute (SSGI), as well as the partnership with the Ethiopian Space Science Society, Ministry of Innovation, Ministry of Tourism, African Astronomical Society, African Planetarium Society, East African Regional Astronomical Development Office, the Ontoto Observatory, …

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Starlab, a commercial space station designed to maintain a human presence in low-Earth orbit and operated by Voyager Space and Airbus, has moved a step closer to reality. During the European Space Agency (ESA) summit in Seville, Spain, the two companies along with the ESA signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Starlab space station. …

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East African Community (EAC) have agreed to collectively invest resources in establishing a jointly-operated satellite to deliver internet services across the region. This decision was reached during the Joint Ministerial meeting of the ICT Infrastructure Development cluster under the Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIPs), convened on Thursday, November 9, in Nairobi, Kenya. Eliud Owalo, Kenya’s …

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Using meteorites from Mars, an AI-powered robot chemist synthesized compounds that could be used to generate oxygen from water, scientists announced on Monday (Nov. 13). . Potential future crewed missions to Mars will need oxygen — not just for astronauts to breathe, but also for use as rocket propellant. One key way to make such …

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The Republic of Djibouti has launched its first satellite, Djibouti 1A, today, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard the SpaceX Transporter-9 dedicated SSO rideshare mission. Developed through a joint capacity-building programme between Djibouti and its technical partner, the Centre Spatial Universitaire de Montpellier (CSUM), Djiboutian engineers and technicians in France designed, constructed and tested …

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SpaceX launched the SES O3b mPOWER mission on Sunday (Nov. 12), a flight that placed two communication satellites into medium Earth orbit (MEO). The Falcon 9 rocket ferrying these satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:08 p.m. EST (2108 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth …

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During the GeoWeek 2023 Ministerial Summit, Humbulani Mudau, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), signed the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO) Charter with Frédéric Bretar, Head of the Space for Climate Observatory. This initiative is dedicated to optimising the utilisation of satellite data and digital technologies to advance effective …

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Former NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who in 1968 led the first mission to fly humans to the moon, has died at the age of 95. Borman’s death in Billings, Montana on Tuesday (Nov. 7) was confirmed by NASA. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best. Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero,” said NASA …

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