Ghana Space News
The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning. The X-class solar flare peaked at an X.12 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of energy from a sunspot region known as AR 3947 and triggering a radio blackout event for … Sun...
In an email to subscribers, Starlink announced plans to implement a revised pricing structure. This move follows an earlier attempt to adjust tariffs on October 1, 2024, which faced significant backlash and regulatory scrutiny from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Prior Regulatory...
On December 6, 2024, the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) formalised a significant partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at advancing cooperation in space science and technology. The signing ceremony, a highlight of the state...
On New Year’s Day, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission control at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland began...
Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on Dec. 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) fell from the sky, reportedly “red-hot” and crashed into Mukuku village, in...
SpaceX successfully launched a miniature fleet of communications satellites into orbit in the wee overnight hours in a vindication of sorts after a last-second abort delayed the flight. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched four “MicroGEO” satellites for the company Astranis to orbit from...
India has launched its first space docking mission on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat. The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh state at 16:30...
The longest-lived president in United States’ history, Jimmy Carter’s voice will continue to extend “into the cosmos” beyond his death at 100. Carter, who died on Sunday (Dec. 29) at his home in Plains, Georgia, recorded the country’s official message that was launched in 1977 and now travels beyond...
On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), a NASA spacecraft made history by coming closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has before. This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun, braving the blistering heat of...