China’s youngest crew so far is on its way to the Tiangong space station. A Long March 2F rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert today (Oct. 25) at 11:14 p.m. EDT  (0314 GMT or 11:14 a.m. Beijing Time on Oct. 26), carrying the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and...

On the sidelines of the ongoing AU-EU Space Dialogue at Dakar, Senegal, Dr Tidiane Ouattara, AUC Space Expert and the GMES & Africa Programme Coordinator, shared some crucial updates regarding the African Space Agency (AfSA) and various other space-related initiatives led by the AUC on the...

Thanks to a combination of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, scans of sedimentary rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico on Earth and computer simulations, geologists have identified the ancient, eroded remnants of rivers in a number of craters on Mars. A team of researchers examining data...

Galaxy Aerospace Ghana, an organization, whose mission is to promote academic research, establish Ghana’s self-reliance in space science and technology, and promote satellite applications In partnership with Starlink, the telecommunications project, created by Elon Musk’s space...

Between October 24 and 26, 2023, the African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) are convening the AU-EU Space Dialogue in Dakar, Senegal. Over the next three days, this high-level discussion will serve as a platform for key space stakeholders from Africa and Europe to exchange knowledge and...

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...