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Eutelsat Group has officially inaugurated its state of the art Earth station at the Luanda Bengo Special Economic Zone ZEE, marking a major milestone in Angola’s telecommunications and digital transformation journey. Developed through a strategic partnership between OneWeb Angola and Eutelsat, the facility functions as a vital communications gateway for the Eutelsat OneWeb NGSO (Non-Geostationary […]

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet’s atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere of Venus down to the surface. At first, scientists believed that the probe had transmitted until contact with

SpaceX will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on the private Ax-4 mission Wednesday morning (June 11), and you can watch the action live. Ax-4 is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). That’s a

On June 10, 1854, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann gave his classic lecture on curved space. Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany. His landmark lecture included a workable definition of how someone might measure the curvature of space. In the first part of his talk, Riemann asked the question of how we might define

On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night. The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is on display at the American Museum of

The Africa2Moon Project, which aims to deploy a low-frequency radio telescope on the Moon, has been selected as a payload for China’s Chang’e-8 mission, scheduled to land at the lunar south pole. The China National Space Administration CNSA announced the successful selection during China Space Day in Shanghai on 24 April 2025. Led by the

On June 8, 1959, NASA’s rocket-powered X-15 experimental plane made its first glide flight. The X-15 rocket plane was part of a series of experimental hypersonic aircraft. This flight marked the beginning of almost a decade of research that explored the altitudes and hypersonic speed at the edge of space. At maximum speed, the X-15

On June 6, 1995, NASA astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA’s space endurance record after spending 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes aboard the Russian space station Mir. Thagard, a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights, was considered the first American cosmonaut and the first American to ride to space aboard a Russian vehicle. Thagard

The General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGA) and the Senegalese Agency for Space Studies (ASES) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), establishing a strategic cooperation framework between the defence and space sectors. The agreement represents a significant milestone in Senegal’s efforts to strengthen national defence capabilities while laying the foundations of a sovereign

On June 5, 2002, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on the STS-111 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station. The launch was originally scheduled for May 30, but was delayed first by bad weather and then by technical issues on Endeavour. After a part was replaced, the shuttle was