Ghana Space News
The Earth’s place in space is a fairly familiar one with it orbiting an average star. The star – our Sun – orbits the centre of our Galaxy the Milky Way. From here onwards, the story is less well known. The Milky Way is part of a large structure called the Laniakea Supercluster which is …...
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three people, including one NASA astronaut, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 21), and you can watch the action live. The rocket is scheduled to launch the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on...
Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to happen relatively soon, cosmically speaking. Researchers have predicted for some time that this planet...
A SpaceX Starlink launch lit up skies across the U.S. West Coast on Monday evening (March 18), leaving a dazzling trail seen for hundreds of miles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast Monday at 10:28 p.m. EDT (7:28 p.m. local time;...
The first data from a new telescope array is in. The Condor Array has revealed a stunning look at a distant dwarf nova — a scene that offers astronomers a new, very-low-brightness view of the universe to marvel over. Condor is comprised of six refracting telescopes, which are united by computers to...
Boeing has started fueling up its Starliner capsule ahead of the vehicle’s first-ever astronaut launch. That mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), is currently scheduled to launch in early May atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on...
According to Vanguard, the Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd (NIGCOMSAT Ltd) has commenced its VSAT installation project to provide satellite coverage for 579 Local Government Areas in Nigeria. This initiative utilises the Ku-band network asset of NigComSat-1R to support the Federal Government’s...
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced the government’s plan to license the satellite internet network Starlink to operate in Ghana. According to her, this was part of the government’s efforts to address the internet disruption in the...
A commercial rocket trying to put a satellite into orbit was intentionally exploded shortly after liftoff Wednesday morning in central Japan following a problem that’s still under investigation. Space One was aiming to be Japan’s first private sector success at putting a satellite into...