Key Highlights NASRDA signed an MoU with the Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) in Abuja to facilitate Nigeria’s first human space flight. Nigeria’s candidate for space will be chosen through a democratic process managed by SERA. The Human Space Flight programme will incur no cost to the...

The Hubble Space Telescope is back in action, having returned to science operations but now with just one operating gyroscope. And to prove it’s still got what it takes, the venerable observatory snapped a striking photo of the dusty spiral galaxy NGC 1546. Located about 50 million light-years...

Like a lightbulb switching between high- and low-power modes, Saturn pumps into space varying amounts of heat based on its seasons, a fresh analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveals. A noticeable effect of this flux is turbulence in Saturn‘s atmosphere, which whips up...

SpaceX successfully launched a European TV satellite into orbit and then achieved its 250th landing on an ocean-based droneship. A Falcon 9 rocket launched Luxembourg-based telecom company SES’ Astra 1P satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday (June 20) at...

Rocket Lab plans to launch its Electron vehicle for the 50th time today (June 20), and you can watch the milestone moment live. An Electron rocket topped with five small satellites for the French Internet of Things (IoT) company Kinéis is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand...

Researchers have teased out the details of how sound behaves at various times and places on Mars — and the results are very different from what we are used to on Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars carries several microphones. These devices, intended to study the properties of materials...

China has selected 10 new astronauts for training as part of its goal to put a crew on the moon by 2030, the country’s human spaceflight agency announced last week. The latest batch includes eight pilots and two payload experts, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO)...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from California on Tuesday night (June 18), ending a 10-day spaceflight drought for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities, lifted off from Vandenberg Space...

A Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to launch Luxembourg-based telecom company SES’ Astra 1P satellite from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday (June 20) during a nearly three-hour window that opens at 5:35 p.m. EDT (2135 GMT).  The liftoff had originally been...