SpaceX has signed a contract to loft up to four of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites over two launches in 2024, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal, which Elon Musk‘s company inked recently with the European Space Agency, calls for the Galileo satellites to launch atop...

The United States Space Force has unveiled an official painting depicting a space plane intercepting an adversary satellite, perhaps illustrating a hint of what we can expect if orbital warfare is in our future. Space Operations Command (SpOC), which provides orbital warfare and intelligence...

Galaxy Aerospace Ghana, in collaboration with SpaceX’s Starlink, will begin Starlink Satellite Internet Operations in Ghana by March 2024. Starlink provides high-speed internet connectivity via a network of satellites orbiting the Earth. This technology far outperforms Ghana’s...

Fresh analysis of the bits of our moon, brought home by Apollo 17 astronauts, has suggested our moon is 40 million years older than we previously thought. That suggests the moon is 4.46 billion years old, rather than 4.52 billion years old as previously estimated. The scientists behind the analysis...

About 46 years after NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched on an epic journey to explore space, the probes’ antique hardware continues to receive tweaks from afar. One update, a software fix, ought to tend to the corrupted data that Voyager 1 began transmitting last year, and another set...

China’s StarWin Science and Technology (StarWin), providing innovative engineering solutions, has announced the successful testing of its Electronically Steered Phased Array Antenna (ESA) terminal for Communications on the Move (COTM) on Avanti Communications’ high-speed HYLAS 4 Ka-band satellite...

During the high-level opening ceremony of the ongoing AU-EU Dialogue taking place in Dakar, Senegal, from October 24 to 26, 2023, the Senegalese Space Study Agency/Agence Sénégalaise d’Etudes Spatiale (ASES) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Regional Association Satellite...

The Benefits of Starlink’s Satellite Internet in Ghana In recent years, the demand for reliable and high-speed internet access has grown exponentially in Ghana. As the country continues to develop and embrace digital technologies, the need for a robust internet infrastructure has become increasingly...

Neptune has 14 known moons. With the exception of Triton, all of  Neptune’s moons are very small, and they come in two general flavors, regular and irregular. The regular ones orbit close to the planet, and the irregular ones are generally farther from Neptune, with all sorts of crazy orbits...