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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

A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit was intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff Wednesday morning in central Japan following a problem that’s still under investigation. Space One was aiming to be Japan’s first private sector success at putting a satellite into orbit. Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off in a

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (March 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off tonight from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local California time; 0228 GMT on March 19). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about

Scientists have taken an instrument originally designed to study huge celestial objects in the cosmos and repurposed it to investigate the world on an infinitely smaller scale. With this instrument, they managed to probe the heart of the atom. The team wanted to understand quantum-scale changes that occur within unstable atoms, and realized there’s a

On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth’s magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. When Earth gets bombarded with plasma from the sun, our planet’s magnetic field lines can break apart and reconnect. This releases huge bursts of energy in Earth’s magnetic environment and can funnel

The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission returned to Earth early Tuesday morning (March 12), with their homecoming broadcast live. Crew-7’s Dragon capsule, Endurance, splashed down at 5:50 a.m. EDT (0950 UTC) off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The recovery crew arrived at the capsule around three minutes later, with thermal cameras tracking the recovery

Stratolaunch, a company that aims to launch hypersonic vehicles from the world’s largest airplane, aced its first rocket-powered flight on Saturday (March 9) with a historic test over the Pacific Ocean. The massive Stratolaunch carrier plane “Roc” launched its expendable prototype vehicle Talon-A1 (T-A1) during a test flight that took off from the Mojave Air

South African NewSpace company, Simera Sense, providing end-to-end optical payloads for the small satellite Earth observation industry, has raised EUR13.5 million in a recent growth investment round. The funding was led by NewSpace Capital and Knife Capital. Simera Sense offers off-the-shelf high-resolution cameras ready for use by clients across the global small satellite industry. This