Ghana Space News

SpaceX Rolls 7th Starship Spacecraft Out For Testing Ahead Of Next Launch.

The world’s most powerful rocket is nearing its next test flight. The seventh launch of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket is expected within the next month or so. After a recent static fire of the vehicle’s massive Super Heavy first-stage booster, the company has prepped the Starship...

SpaceX Scrubs Launch Of Mysterious RRT-1 Mission Due To High Winds.

SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch of the mysterious RRT-1 mission from Florida’s Space Coast on Friday (Dec. 13)_ due to high winds. A Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday at 8:04 p.m. EDT (0104 GMT on Dec. 14), kicking...

December Full Moon Rises This Weekend.

The final full moon of 2024 lights the skies this weekend to welcome in the holiday season. December’s full Cold Moon will rise overnight on Saturday (Dec. 14) and remain in the sky all night until setting with the sunrise on Sunday (Dec. 15). The full moon will rise in the Taurus...

Sonke Telecommunications Unveils World-First Layer 2 Solution for OneWeb Connectivity.

Sonke Telecommunications has achieved a global milestone by introducing a world-first Layer 2 solution integrated into its OneWeb (Eutelsat) satellite connectivity offering. This breakthrough, powered by Sonke’s advanced core network fabric, enables rapid adoption of emerging technologies and...

India Practices Pulling Its Gaganyaan Astronaut Capsule Out Of The Sea.

India continues to perfect hardware and recovery procedures for its Gaganyaan human spaceflight program. L scenarios. The Gaast week, the nation recovered a mock Gaganyaan crew module onto a ship’s well deck, which opens to the sea and can be flooded with water so that the module can be...

Panama, Austria Sign Artemis Accords, Bringing Tally To 50 Nations.

Fifty nations have now joined NASA’s effort to establish peaceful and cooperative international space exploration. On Wednesday (Dec. 11), Panama and Austria signed NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming the 49th and 50th nations to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all...

‘We Are Preparing To Make History’: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Gears Up For Epic Sun Flyby On Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph), breaking its own records for speed and closest approach to our star. The spacecraft, roughly the size of a small car...

Rocket Lab’s Secretive Launch Last Month Was A Hypersonic Test For The US Military.

Rocket Lab’s pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Virginia’s Wallops Island. It employed HASTE, the suborbital...

100th Woman In Space, Emily Calandrelli, Stands Up To ‘Small Men’ On The Internet: ‘I Should Have Expected This.’

Emily Calandrelli made history on Nov. 22, 2024, when she became the 100th woman to go to space. But thanks to “small men on the internet,” the monumental milestone was marred by misogyny, Calandrelli told Live Science. “This is something that I had been working towards for two...