Ghana Space News

SpaceX Moves Super Heavy Booster To Pad Ahead Of 4th Starship Flight.

SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket. On Thursday (April 4), SpaceX announced via X that it has moved a Starship first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas. That post also shared two photos...

Ambitious New Dark Matter-Hunting Experiment Delivers 1st Results.

A new experiment designed to search the cosmos for its most mysterious “stuff,” dark matter, has delivered its first results. While the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) developed by the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab...

China Putting Finishing Touches On Seaside Spaceport For Commercial Launches.

China is making progress on two new pads for commercial space launches from the island of Hainan. Launch Pad Number 1 at Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Center was completed late last year, while progress on a second pad has entered the equipment-installation phase and will be completed...

Blue Origin Will Launch Ed Dwight, The 1st-Ever Black Astronaut Candidate, To Space On Next New Shepard Rocket Flight.

We now know who will be on board for Blue Origin’s first crewed spaceflight since August 2022. Today (April 4), Jeff Bezos‘ company announced the six crewmembers for the NS-25 space tourism mission, which will lift off from Blue Origin‘s West Texas site in the relatively near...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Exploring Possible Dried-Up Red Planet River.

Currently in the twelfth year of its mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to press on while treading the world of Mars, delving into areas no rover has gone before. The latest phase of Curiosity’s adventure has brought it to what some scientists believe is the desiccated bed of an...

Mysterious object that crashed through Florida Home Was Likely Space Junk From The International Space Station.

A mysterious object that came crashing through a house in Florida is possibly debris from the International Space Station (ISS). The cylindrical tube was a few inches long and weighed nearly 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms). It crashed through the roof and both floors of Alejandro Otero’s home in...

Thousands Of Strange White Rocks Found On Mars.

Mars’ rusty red surface may have given it its famous “Red Planet” status, but it would also appear that thousands of white rocks are strangely littered on the Martian ground. NASA’s Perseverance rover, a robotic geologist that has been exploring the Jezero Crater since early...

James Webb Space Telescope Spots Hints Of Exomoons Forming In Infant Star System.

Three definitely isn’t a crowd for planets around a distant infant star. Astronomers had already discovered two planets forming in the disk of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disk, around the infant star PDS 70. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers with the MIRI...

Nilesat Reports USD 43.8 Million Profit in Fiscal Year 2023, Marking a 12% Increase from the Previous Year.

Major General Sameh Katta, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Egyptian Satellite Company Nilesat has announced the company’s robust financial performance for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2023. Nilesat recorded profits amounting to USD 43.754 million, marking a...