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A high-level delegation from Angola’s National Oil and Gas Agency ANPG, led by Chairman of the Board of Directors Paulino Jerónimo, has paid an official visit to the headquarters of the Management Office for the National Space Programme GGPEN. The visit focused on reviewing existing collaborations and identifying new opportunities to harness space technology for […]

On June 17, 1985, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on NASA’s STS-51-G mission, carrying payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who became the first Arab and first Muslim in space. And because he was a prince in the House of Saud, he became the first member of a

Senegal has officially joined the International Space4Ocean Alliance, a new global coalition aimed at harnessing space based technologies for the preservation and sustainable management of the world’s oceans. The announcement was made during the alliance’s official launch on 9 June 2025, held at the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France, on the margins of the

As Elon Musk’s Starlink moves toward entry into the South African market, astronomers are increasingly concerned about the impact of its low-Earth orbit LEO satellites on radio astronomy, particularly at the Square Kilometre Array SKA-Mid located in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape. The SKA, one of the most powerful radio telescopes on the

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Tereshkova, a cosmonaut with then-Soviet Russia, launched into space on the Vostok 6 mission and orbited Earth 48 times in 70.8 hours. That’s nearly three days alone in space The goal of Vostok 6 was to better understand the female

The Angola ICT Forum ANGOTIC is a global forum and integrated exhibition platform dedicated to accelerating the digital transformation of Angola and Africa. It aims to foster the creation of a Digital Single Market and to promote collaboration across the international technology community. Each year, it attracts thousands of technology experts and business leaders from

On June 15, 2011, Iran launched the Rasad-1 satellite into orbit around Earth. Rasad-1 (the name means Observation-1 in Farsi) is an imaging satellite that was sent into a 162-mile orbit by an Iranian Safir rocket. Rasad-1 made about 15 orbits per day, and sent back pictures to Earth. This was Iran’s third satellite and

Elon Musk has expressed strong interest in possibly launching SpaceX rockets from South Africa’s Denel Overberg Test Range near Arniston, a move that could strengthen the country’s emerging role in the global space economy. Following a high-profile diplomatic exchange between former President Donald Trump and South African officials, the proposal was raised during a closed-door

Jaguar Space, LLC, a U.S.-based space science company, and Space in Africa, the leading source of intelligence and data analytics on the African space industry, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU to collaborate on a pioneering initiative to advance space based agricultural research and enhance the global representation of emerging space nations. Under this

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope has joined forces with the European VLBI Network EVN, the world’s most sensitive array of radio telescopes, to capture the universe in unprecedented detail. This partnership marks a significant step forward in astronomical research, combining cutting edge technology from the Southern and Northern Hemispheres to push the boundaries of what