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Over the past few years, the NewSpace Africa Conference has evolved beyond a gathering of industry leaders; it has become the continent’s most active dealmaking hub for space and satellite partnerships. Across successive editions, governments, private companies, and regional organisations have leveraged the conference to formalise collaborations that strengthen Africa’s space ecosystem. In conference halls, […]

From 7 to 10 October 2025, Europe and Africa deepened their growing partnership in the space sector during the Space Systems Engineering Training Course, held at the ESA Education Training and Learning Facility at ESEC-Galaxia in Belgium. The programme brought together young engineers from both continents to strengthen technical competence and foster collaboration in space

Botswana’s Minister of Communications and Innovation, David Tshere, has announced the country’s intention to launch a new Earth observation satellite, BOTSAT-2, marking the next phase in Botswana’s growing space ambitions. Addressing Parliament on Tuesday, Minister Tshere noted that the commercialisation of BOTSAT-1 data will play a pivotal role in supporting funding for the upcoming mission.

Starlink’s user base in Zimbabwe continues to expand, with the latest data showing an increase from 30,907 users in the first quarter of 2025 to 40,146 in the second quarter, marking a 29.98% rise over the period. According to the latest performance report by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), there has

The Regional African Satellite Communication Organisation (RASCOM) has expanded its mandate to strengthen Africa’s satellite monitoring and governance capabilities through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kratos Communications and Liviasoft. The agreement was formalised during the Kratos and Liviasoft Satellite Monitoring Forum held in Doha, Qatar. The high-level forum convened industry leaders and government representatives

On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn’s moons, about

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in

The Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Centre (LASAC) of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, which aims at advancing Gabon’s Earth observation capabilities. The agreement was formalised during the China-Africa Cooperation Centre

On Oct. 22, 1992, the space shuttle Columbia launched into space with the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek.” During mission STS-52, NASA astronaut and shuttle commander James Wetherbee brought a small container with a portion of Roddenberry’s ashes into space with him per the request of Roddenberry’s widow, Majel Barrett. It

On Oct. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. This was the last mission in the Zond program. After the first three Zond missions explored Venus and Mars, the next ones were circumlunar missions that flew around the moon before returning to Earth. Although there was