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SpaceX just notched another impressive milestone. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Merah Putih 2 communications satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:11 p.m. EST (2011 GMT), then deployed it into orbit 34.5 minutes later. It was the 300th successful mission for the workhorse rocket to date, SpaceX noted this afternoon […]

An uncontrolled satellite is seen tumbling towards Earth in newly released images as it prepares to reenter the atmosphere. ERS-2 was launched almost 30 years ago and is expected to break up into pieces upon reentry into the the Earth’s atmosphere. Experts from the European Space Agency said the ERS-2 will break up into fragments

A private company’s first in-space manufacturing project is about to come back to Earth. Last week, California-based Varda Space Industries got permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to land the capsule from its W-1 mission in northern Utah. If all goes according to plan, W-1’s 3-foot-wide (0.9 meters) conical capsule will re-enter Earth’s

The Managing Director of the National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) hosted a team of delegates from the Zambian Ministry of Technology and Science, led by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Brilliant Habeenzu, the Zambian Ambassador in Angola, Laurence Chalungumuna, and  Dr Faustin Banda, to explore opportunities for enhancing space cooperation, explicitly focusing on the advantages

Japan has successfully launched its next-generation rocket into orbit, the country’s space agency has announced, after two failed attempts cast a pall over Tokyo’s space ambitions. The H3 had a “successful liftoff” at 9:22am Tokyo time (12:22 GMT) on Saturday and entered its planned orbit carrying a dummy satellite and two functioning microsatellites, the Japan

Our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate — a phenomenon that all theories of cosmology agree upon but none can fully explain. Now, a new theoretical study offers an intriguing solution: Perhaps our universe is expanding because it keeps colliding with and absorbing “baby” parallel universes. Studies of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow

At the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which was held from February 14th – 15th, 2024, the Executive Council of the African Union elected and appointed the first African Space Council to advance the operationalisation of the African Space Agency, which was inaugurated

India plans to launch a powerful weather satellite to orbit on Saturday morning (Feb. 17), and you can watch the action live. The INSAT-3DS satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on Saturday at 7:05 a.m. EST (1205 GMT; 5:35 p.m. local India time) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Titan’s underground ocean, and similar oceans inside other icy moons in the outer solar system, may lack the organic chemistry necessary for life, according to new astrobiological research. Titan is Saturn‘s largest moon, and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It’s famous for being shrouded in a smog of petrochemicals and for

Dr Ayman Ashour, Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, has announced Egypt’s milestone in receiving the initial data image captured by the experimental satellite NExSat-1, a collaborative effort with the esteemed German company BST. This success aligns with the steadfast directives of our esteemed political leadership aimed at fortifying Egypt’s national space technology