Ghana Space News

Chinese Rocket Launches 8 Satellites To Orbit From Ship At Sea.

China has another sea launch under its belt. One of the country’s Jielong-3 rockets (also known as Smart Dragon-3) lifted off from a floating platform off the coast of eastern China on Monday (Sept. 23) at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 GMT on Sept. 24). The Smart Dragon-3 carried eight remote-sensing...

SpaceX, NASA ‘Go’ For 1st Astronaut Launch To ISS From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Pad.

NASA cleared its next astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch on Friday (Sept. 27), a weekend liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and break in a new launch pad for SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch two Crew-9...

China’s CAS Space Launches 5 Satellites With Its 4th Rocket.

A commercial Chinese rocket maker has completed its fourth solid rocket launch, sending five satellites into orbit. CAS Space’s Kinetica-1 (also known as Lijian-1) solid rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 7:33 p.m. EDT on Sept. 24 (2333 GMT; or 7:33...

Record-breaking Milky Way Map Showcases 1.5 Billion Objects.

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile over the course of over 13 years, from...

Starlink Expands its Satellite Internet Operations to Burundi.

Starlink has announced that its high-speed internet is now operational in Burundi. This announcement comes after a presidential decree granted the satellite-based internet provider an operating license in May 2024. The permit was granted under the Telecommunications Regulation and Control Agency...

NASA, South Korea Plan Mission To Unexplored Region Of Deep Space.

NASA and South Korea’s space agency have agreed to deeper cooperation in space exploration, science and aeronautics, including collaboration on a pioneering mission. NASA and the Republic of Korea’s newly created Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) signed a joint statement on advance...

Japan Launches Spy Satellite On Penultimate Mission Of H-2A Rocket.

Japan’s workhorse H-2A rocket flew for the second-to-last time early Thursday morning (Sept. 26). An H-2A topped with a secret spy satellite called IGS-Radar 8 lifted off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT and 2:24 p.m. local Japan time). The...

Blue Origin Fires Up 2nd Stage Of Huge New Glenn Rocket Ahead Of Debut Launch.

Blue Origin carried out a hotfire test for its New Glenn rocket second stage on Monday (Sept. 23) as the company moves toward the huge vehicle’s debut flight. The 15-second hotfire test was conducted on Sept. 23 to validate interactions between the subsystems on the New Glenn second stage, its...

SpaceX Launches 20 Starlink Internet Satellites From California.

SpaceX launched 20 more of its Starlink broadband satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, from California early Wednesday morning (Sept. 25). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, on California’s central coast, on...