The White House has tasked NASA with creating a new time zone for the moon by the end of 2026, as part of the United States’ broader goal to establish international norms in space. The direction to set up a lunar time zone comes amid growing global interest for humanity to establish a long-term presence […]
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SpaceX launched 11 satellites on its first-ever Bandwagon-1 class rideshare mission from Florida tonight (April 7) and aced an evening rocket landing just minutes later. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) tonight at 7:16 p.m. EDT (2316 GMT), kicking off the 11-satellite Bandwagon-1 mission. The spacecraft successfully reached orbit, with
Today (April 8), a total solar eclipse will plunge parts of 15 U.S. states into sudden darkness as the moon’s enormous shadow sweeps across the continent. Crossing northeast from Mexico to Canada over the course of several hours, the April 8 total solar eclipse will be visible to an estimated 44 million people who live
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MSTelecom, a leading telecommunications service provider in Angola, and the Angola National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) have signed a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on delivering high-speed broadband connectivity across Angola. Dr Zolana Joao, General Manager of GGPEN and Felisberta Martins de Jesus, the CEO of MSTelecoms, signed on the sidelines of
MSTelecom and GGPEN Sign MoU to Enhance Broadband Connectivity in Angola. Read More »
The first female Belarusian in space, alongside a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut, came back to Earth early this morning (April 6). A Rusian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus landed near Karaganda, Kazakhstan at 3:17 a.m. EDT (0717 GMT; 12:17 p.m.
There are many words that could be used to describe WASP-76b — hellish, scorching, turbulent, chaotic, and even violent. This is a planet outside the solar system that sits so close to its star it gets hot enough to vaporize lead. So, as you can imagine, until now, “glorious” wasn’t one of those words. This
This Hellish Exoplanet’s Skies Rain Iron And Create A Rainbow-Like Effect. Read More »
The third day of the 2024 NewSpace Africa Conference built on the success of the previous days to continue high-level discussions highlighting the experiences and uptake of space innovation, technologies, and applications among different stakeholders. Status Updates on African Space Agencies’ Activities – Cohort 4 The fourth head of the space agency panel featured Mr
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In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to the Earth‘s surface. Now, they’re getting ready for their second flight. NASA’s Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named for the Egyptian god of darkness and enemy of the sun
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SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket. On Thursday (April 4), SpaceX announced via X that it has moved a Starship first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas. That post also shared two photos of
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A new experiment designed to search the cosmos for its most mysterious “stuff,” dark matter, has delivered its first results. While the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) developed by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab hasn’t turned up dark matter particles just yet, the new results place a
Ambitious New Dark Matter-Hunting Experiment Delivers 1st Results. Read More »
