Ghana Space News
The Regional African Satellite Communication Organisation (RASCOM) has expanded its mandate to strengthen Africa’s satellite monitoring and governance capabilities through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kratos Communications and Liviasoft. The agreement was formalised during the Kratos and...
On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet. The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan...
On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands...
The Gabonese Agency for Space Studies and Observations (AGEOS) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Centre (LASAC) of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, which aims at advancing Gabon’s Earth...
On Oct. 22, 1992, the space shuttle Columbia launched into space with the ashes of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek.” During mission STS-52, NASA astronaut and shuttle commander James Wetherbee brought a small container with a portion of Roddenberry’s ashes into space...
On Oct. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. This was the last mission in the Zond program. After the first three Zond missions explored Venus and Mars, the next ones were circumlunar missions that flew around the moon before returning to Earth...
On Oct. 15, 1997, NASA launched the Cassini spacecraft on a mission to explore Saturn and its moons. It lifted off aboard a Titan 4B rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It took almost seven years for Cassini to reach Saturn, with the spacecraft entering orbit around the ringed...
On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. Yeager made his historic flight in a Bell X-1 rocket plane that he named “Glamorous Glennis”...
On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the “Whirlpool Galaxy,” also known as Messier 51, or M51. Charles Messier was scanning the sky for objects that could confuse comet hunters when he catalogued the galaxy as M51. However, Messier wasn’t able to...