Ghana Space News

Blue Origin launch 1st mission in 15 months today

Blue Origin will launch its first mission in more than 15 months this morning (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live. Blue Origin‘s New Shepard suborbital vehicle is scheduled to lift off from the company’s West Texas site today during a window that opens at 9:30 a.m. EST (1430...

Tanzania Secures Orbital Slot for First Satellite Launch

The Minister of Information, Communication and Information Technology of Tanzania, Nape Nnauye, has announced at the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference that the country has successfully secured an orbital slot of 16 degrees West to launch its inaugural satellite, marking a significant step...

Senegal and Turkey Discuss Space Collaboration

A Senegalese Space Studies Agency (ASES) delegation led by its Director-General, Mr Maram Kaire, visited Turkey from December 12th to 15th, 2023. The delegation had working sessions with Yusuf Kıraç, the President of the Turkish Space Agency and his colleagues, and the top management of the Space...

MTN Group Exploring LEO Satellite Services to Enhance Network Resilience

According to an official statement released by the MTN Group, the mobile telecommunications provider is currently exploring low earth orbit (LEO) satellite solutions in collaboration with operators like SpaceX’s Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb. This initiative aims to bridge connectivity gaps in remote...

SpaceX to launch 1st batch of ‘direct to cell’ Starlink satellites early Dec. 15

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Friday morning (Dec. 15), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday during a roughly 3.5-hour...

Rocket Lab returns to flight with successful launch of Japanese satellite

Rocket Lab just bounced back from a launch failure. The company’s Electron rocket lifted off from New Zealand tonight (Dec. 14) a little after 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT and 5:00 p.m. New Zealand time on Dec. 15), carrying the Tsukuyomi-1 satellite for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS...

China launches secret space plane on 3rd-ever mission

China has launched its reusable space plane for the third time. A Long March 2F rocket lofted China’s experimental spacecraft from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday (Dec. 14) to conduct space science experiments and “provide technical support for the peaceful use of...

2023 in Review: Establishing an Enabling Space Environment in Namibia

In 2021, Namibia launched a National Space Science and Technology Policy to guide the use of space resources to contribute towards the socio-economic growth and development of the country. The policy has an implementation period of eight years, concluding in 2030. Namibia’s collaboration with China...

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space can’t phone home (again) due to glitch

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe is currently unable to transmit any scientific or systems data back to Earth. The 46-year-old spacecraft is capable of receiving commands, but a problem seems to have arisen with the probe’s computers. Voyager 1’s flight data system (FDS), which collects...