Ghana Space News
On July 12, 1989, the European Space Agency launched an experimental communications satellite named Olympus-1. Olympus-1 was the largest civilian telecommunication satellite ever built at the time, and some nicknamed it LargeSat. It weighed 5,758 lbs (2,612 kilograms) at launch, according to ESA...
The Kenya Space Agency KSA, in partnership with STAR.VISION Aerospace has successfully concluded the Spaceborne AI Algorithm Rideshare Programme, marking the end of the final phase of an initiative launched in June 2024. Over the past year, 58 students from 14 Kenyan universities designed, tested...
On July 10, 1962, the communications satellite Telstar 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to beam live television from Europe to the United States. This was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days after the launch, Telstar 1 transmitted the world’s...
South Africa’s growing space sector took another significant leap forward during the recent SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare mission, with six local companies collectively supplying 116 products to the global launch. Simera Sense, Dragonfly Aerospace, CubeSpace, CubeCom, NewSpace Systems and Chromar...
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission. Atlantis was the last of NASA’s space shuttles to fly into space. It went on 33 missions since 1985, ferrying astronauts to and from space stations, and even doing some top secret missions for the U.S. military. Mission...
On July 7, 1961, the U.S. Air Force launched a satellite called Discoverer 26 into orbit with a classified payload. It lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 4:29 p.m. local time (2329 GMT). Discoverer 26 was part of a series of reconnaissance or spy satellites whose missions...
On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter’s moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted Lysithea from Mount Wilson Observatory in California, where he had previously discovered three more Jovian moons. This was the tenth moon astronomers had found at Jupiter...
Zimbabwe’s satellite internet sector is undergoing a significant shift, largely driven by the arrival of Starlink, the Low Earth Orbit LEO satellite internet provider operated by SpaceX. According to the latest subscriber statistics by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of...
On July 3, 1998, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA) launched the Nozomi spacecraft on a mission to Mars. Nozomi (のぞみ) is Japanese for “Wish” or “Hope.” This would be the country’s first probe to go to another planet. Nozomi was supposed to arrive at Mars in...