NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft, the longest-running mission at Mars, circled the Red Planet for the 100,000th time today, the mission team announced in a statement. To celebrate the milestone, the space agency released an intricate panorama of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system; Odyssey captured the view in March. The volcano’s base sprawls …
MTN Ghana has announced the start of a major network upgrade across the country to improve customer experience and reduce carbon emissions. The upgrade will involve replacing existing mobile network infrastructure with more efficient and environmentally friendly equipment. The project will be completed in August 2024. The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of MTN Ghana, Thomas …
A key Perseverance rover instrument has been revived to continue its search for evidence of microbial life on Mars. The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument mounted on Perseverance’s robotic arm had been out of action for around six months, due to a moveable protective lens cover not …
Perseverance Mars Rover Team Revives Life-hunting Instrument After 6 Months of Effort. Read More »
NASA says Boeing Starliner will extend its first astronaut mission well into the summer after launching June 5 for what was supposed to be a 10-day flight. Starliner experienced both helium leaks and thruster issues during a June 6 docking with the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft is stable and rated to leave the …
Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Still Doesn’t Have A Landing Date, NASA says. Read More »
Collins Aerospace has exited a contract to develop new spacesuits for NASA following talks with the agency. The contract was part of the xEVAS program, which saw awards to Collins and Axiom Space to develop up to four new spacesuit designs for both the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit and the Artemis …
Collins Backs Out of ISS Spacesuit Contract With NASA. Read More »
Canadarm3 will fly to the upcoming NASA Gateway space station in five years or so on the back of a lucrative new design contract drawn from earlier funding of the program, Canadian space officials pledged. The robotic arm, key to building the Gateway space station that will play a key role in NASA‘s series of …
Canada Begins Work On New Canadarm3 Robotic Arm For Upcoming Gateway Lunar Outpost. Read More »
Nine astronauts on the space station briefly moved to their docked return spacecraft late Wednesday (June 26) as a satellite broke up in low Earth orbit. The Expedition 71 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) went to their three spacecraft, including Boeing Starliner, shortly after 9 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT), according to a brief …
Key Highlights Quub, Inc has partnered with Solid State Propulsion (SSP) to integrate the SSP Pocket Rocket Vacuum Arc Thruster (VAT) into its satellite platforms. The Vacuum Arc Thruster developed by SSP operates on the principle of pulsed electric arcs between two electrodes, generating high-velocity plasma to propel satellites with precision and efficiency. Quub, Inc …
Quub, Inc Partners with SSP to Advance Space Propulsion Technology. Read More »
Key Highlights Starlink has officially announced that its high-speed, low-latency internet service is now available in Madagascar. Starlink, the satellite telecommunications company, has officially announced on its X page (formerly Twitter) that its high-speed, low-latency internet service is now commercially available in Madagascar. The journey towards this milestone began in April 2024 when Tahina Razafindramalo, …
SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Service Available in Madagascar. Read More »
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today, marking a new milestone in the company’s reusability mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Aboard the rocket was a batch of 23 …
SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites, Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Record 22nd Flight. Read More »
