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Ethiopia’s Space Science and Geospatial Institute (SSGI) successfully commissioned a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiving station and a magnetometre at the Entoto Observatory and Research Center near Addis Ababa, reported Space in Africa. The project was developed with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and marks an important milestone for Ethiopia’s contributions to […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced plans to purchase an Earth Observation satellite using a $20m financing arrangement from Sicomines, a strategic mining partnership between Chinese and Congolese investors, reported Space in Africa. The announcement was made by Gilbert Kabanda, Minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation, during a plenary Senate session held

Intelsat, in collaboration with MaxIQ Space, is expanding its Africa Space STEM Programme to schools in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Senegal. Now in its fifth year, the initiative will reach 12 schools and introduce in-person learning opportunities for students. The programme provides hands-on training, expert-led instruction and STEM kits designed to integrate space science,

Intelsat has been awarded the prestigious Africa Sustainable Futures award delivered by the Financial Times and the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MIGA, in the Digital Infrastructure category. This recognition highlights Intelsat’s recent innovative satellite broadband project in Burkina Faso, which has significantly enhanced the country’s telecommunications resilience. Despite significant investment in establishing

More than six months after its first crewed mission came to a disappointing end, the future is still murky for Boeing’s Starliner astronaut capsule. That mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), launched on June 5, sending NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) for a roughly 10-day stay. Starliner

Orange, a leading global telecom operator and digital service provider, has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Telesat, one of the largest satellite operators, to enhance satellite connectivity through Telesat’s Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) network. As part of the agreement, Orange will host a Telesat Lightspeed Landing Station at its teleport in Bercenay-en-Othe,

Throughout history, astronomy has played a pivotal role in shaping human beliefs, cultures, and societies. The practical applications of the study of stars, planets, and cosmic phenomena has contributed to the development and evolution of humanity. Astronomy enabled humans to track seasons and plan agricultural activities, navigate over land and ocean, and keep track of

The approaches taken by both Europe and Asia, although distinct, were largely developed in response to the premier space superpower – the United States of America (U.S.). The U.S. is the progenitor of the centralised agency driven approach that the legacy space industry was patterned after  and that drove European Member States to coalesce and

In the heart of East Africa, Kenya’s journey to the stars began in the 1960s, a time when the world was still awakening to the possibilities of space. Kenya, in partnership with Italy built the Malindi Space Centre, now known as the Luigi Broglio Space Centre. Situated near the equator, the launch site became the

The Earth and a starry night appear to merge into one strange and otherworldly sci-fi trip in this mind-bending photo captured by a NASA astronaut in space with help from an astrophotgrapher on the ground. What is it? What looks like something out of the finale of “2001: A Space Odyssey” is actually a long-exposure