The spaceflight record books have just been rewritten. Over the weekend, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a new mark for most total days spent off Earth, eclipsing the 878 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes of his countryman Gennady Padalka, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency...

Theme: The Role in closing Africa Poverty Gap. The Newspace event will come to Luanda in 2024. NewSpace Africa Conference is a high-level gathering of industry leaders, commercial space companies, investors, and other key stakeholders in the African space and satellite industry. Globally, a new era...

A pair of Chinese rockets launched 11 mobility services satellites for an automaker and nine further, diverse satellites into orbit late Friday. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China at 6:37 p.m. Eastern (2337 UTC) Feb. 2, followed hours later...

The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) officially launched its experimental satellite, Nexsat-1, using China’s small orbital launch vehicle, Jielong-3 (Smart Dragon-3), from the coast of Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China, on February 3, 2024. Following the successful launch...

Early this year, using T-Mobile’s network, SpaceX successfully sent and received text messages using new Starlink direct-to-cell satellites that deliver broadband connectivity to smartphones anywhere in the world, bypassing traditional infrastructure. While some will consider this an innocuous...

In a press release by Q-KON, the telecommunication company has announced that following the incorporation of Eutelsat OneWeb LEO satellite connectivity into their Twoobii Smart Satellite Services, the first bank branch of a prominent digital bank has been successfully launched on the service...

In a news report by Nyasa Times, Daka Space Technologies Ltd (DST) secured a EUR 10,000 grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom (UK) for its groundbreaking project, “Launching the Malawi Space Stars: A space technology awareness campaign to inspire the next generation of...

“The scientific breadth and impact of the survey is quite overwhelming; it’s hard to put into a few words.” The first data released to the public from the eROSITA sky survey comprises an X-ray view of half the sky over Earth, encompassing almost a million high-energy cosmic sources...

The spacecraft was captured with the ISS robotic arm at 4:59 a.m. EST (0959 GMT). Northrop Grumman’s robotic Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Thursday morning (Feb. 1), with the rendezvous streamed live. The Cygnus launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...