SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn astronaut mission remains on track to lift off early Tuesday morning (Aug. 27). Over the weekend, SpaceX briefly ignited the first-stage engines of the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch Polaris Dawn, in a common preflight test known as a static fire. “Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete — targeting …
SpaceX Fires Up Falcon 9 Rocket Ahead of Polaris Dawn Astronaut Launch. Read More »
SpaceX is about to launch four private astronauts farther than any human has flown since the end of the Apollo era. The crew will be on a mission to perform history’s first commercial spacewalk. The mission, Polaris Dawn, will liftoff early Tuesday (Aug. 27), from SpaceX’s Launch Complex-39A, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center — the …
Dr Sherif Sedky, CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), has unveiled a new plan to grow Egypt’s space capabilities. The agency will establish a joint-stock company dedicated to manufacturing satellite components. Additionally, the plan involves creating a marketing company for the agency’s products and launching an electronic platform where users can browse and purchase …
EgSA’s New Initiative At Enhancing its Space Capabilities. Read More »
Airtel Nigeria has announced the successful installation of the Eutelsat OneWeb dish at its site in Lagos, Nigeria. This dish will bring high-speed internet to remote areas, improving connectivity across the country. In addition, it will offer high-speed internet to businesses and governments across Nigeria, driving better connectivity. With speeds of 100 Mbps and low …
Airtel Nigeria Successfully Installs Eutelsat OneWeb Dish. Read More »
Scientists have found a key process required for superconductivity occurring at higher temperatures than previously thought. It could be a small but significant step in the search for one of the “holy grails” of physics, a superconductor that operates at room temperature. The discovery, made inside the unlikely material of an electrical insulator, reveals electrons …
Physicists Find Superconductor Behavior At Temperatures Once Thought ‘Impossible’. Read More »
On Saturday (Aug. 24), NASA announced its final decision regarding the fates of the two astronauts aboard the International Space Station whose original eight-day space jaunt had turned into a nebulous multi-month excursion. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, will return home no earlier …
Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Return Home On A SpaceX Dragon In 2025, NASA Confirms. Read More »
Two women astronauts will set a spaceflight record next week, if all goes according to plan. The Polaris Dawn mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Aug. 27. It aims to perform the first-ever private spacewalk and to fly at a higher altitude above Earth than any crewed …
SpaceX’s Private Polaris Dawn Mission Will Set Altitude Record For Female Astronauts. Read More »
Starlink has introduced a new rental kit option to the Kenyan market to make its satellite internet services more accessible. With the new kit, customers can now rent the hardware for KSH 1,950 (USD 15) a month, with an additional one-time activation fee of KSH 2,730 (USD 21). This move addresses concerns over the high …
Starlink Introduces Kit Rental Option to the Kenyan Market. Read More »
Scientists are trying to build a new sort of satellite, and have recently tested their idea with the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or “StarFOX.” You may be getting flashbacks to the retro Star Fox video game series — and you’d be right to imagine this experiment as a science fiction fantasy brought into reality. There …
StarFOX Autonomous Satellite Swarm Could Level Up Space Exploration. Read More »
Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun. These giants usually live in the centers of galaxies. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a supermassive black hole in its …
