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  On 27 January 2023, the Angolan president, João Lourenço, inaugurated the nation’s first satellite Mission Control Center (MCC) in Funda, Luanda. The MCC is an essential infrastructure capable of operating three satellites simultaneously and would be used to monitor the activity of the ANGOSAT 2, launched on 12 October 2022. The launch ceremony was …

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Astronomers are finding new exoplanets almost every day, but due to the incredible distances between star systems, space exploration has been limited to our solar system. For example, it is estimated that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, presently traveling away from the sun at 10.7 miles per second (17.3 kilometers per second), would take over 73,000 …

Could we use antimatter-based propulsion to visit alien worlds? Read More »

    In its violent early years, Earth was a molten hellscape that ejected the moon after a fiery collision with another protoplanet, scientists now suspect. Later, it morphed from a watery expanse to a giant snowball that nearly snuffed out all existing life. Then hyper-hurricanes with waves as high as 300 feet pummeled the …

We are all made of Stars: The long trip from the Big Bang to the Human Body Read More »

Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron previewed a new image of a pair of galaxies from the Webb telescope’s MIRI and NIRCam cameras. A merging galaxy pair cavort in this image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, an international mission led by NASA with its partners ESA (European Space Agency) and …

VP Harris, French President Get First Look at Galactic Get-Together Read More »

  2022 WJ1 was a tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth. But astronomers saw it coming, and NASA’s Scout impact hazard assessment system calculated where it would hit. In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny asteroid harmlessly streaked across the sky …

NASA Program Predicted Impact of Small Asteroid Over Ontario, Canada Read More »

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will pass Earth in one of the closest such encounters ever recorded – coming within a tenth of the distance of most communication satellites’ orbit. NASA said the newly discovered asteroid would pass 2,200 miles (3,600km) above the southern tip of South America at 7.27pm US eastern time …

Asteroid 2023 BU about to pass Earth in one of Closest ever Encounters. Read More »

  A case study involving Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant shows space-based observations can be used to track carbon dioxide emissions – and reductions – at the source. A duo of Earth-observing missions has enabled researchers to detect and track carbon dioxide (CO2) emission changes from a single facility, using the world’s fifth-largest coal-fired power …

NASA Space Missions Pinpoint Sources of CO2 Emissions on Earth Read More »

    The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launched into Earth orbit on Friday, Dec. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in central California, and engineers are working to prepare the mission to begin measuring the height of water on over 90% of Earth’s surface, providing a high-definition survey of our planet’s water …

Watch the Latest Water Satellite Unfold Itself in Space Read More »

Egypt’s Prime Minister, Dr Mustafa Madbouli, chaired the Egyptian Space Board of Directors meeting, which had in attendance the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr Amr Talaat, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr Sharif Sedqi, the Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), and members of the Agency’s Board …

The Egyptian Prime Minister Presides Over Egypt Space Agency’s Board Meeting Read More »

Italy and Algeria have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate peacefully in outer space exploration. The objective of the MOU is to “Establish a cooperation framework in the field of space exploration, Earth observation, space technologies and training, to implement projects of mutual interest”. Several signatures were present at the signing ceremony, …

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