Ghana Space News
For the second time in a mere month, SpaceX has tied its rocket-reuse record. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites launched on Saturday night (March 23) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:09 p.m. EDT (0309 GMT on March 24). It was the 19th...
If you’re in the path of totality for the April 8 total solar eclipse, you’ll experience a brief period of darkness — totality — for a few seconds or minutes. This is the only safe time to look directly at the sun without solar eclipse glasses. If you observe the sun‘s corona...
Scientists are tracking a massive plume of toxic gas moving across northern Europe that was spat out by the ongoing volcanic eruption in Iceland. The gas cloud is unlikely to cause any serious health problems. However, it could impact the ozone hole above the Arctic, experts warn. On March 16, an...
Telecom operators and Internet service providers serving Africa have been forced to send their traffic via elaborate detours following damage to four submarine cables off the continent’s west coast last Thursday. Some companies are bypassing the damaged cables by going via Brazil, according to one...
Some Ghanaians have shared their views following the announcement of internet disruption as result of outages on multiple submarine optic fibre cables that come into Ghana. Narrating their ordeal to JoyNews, some described the day as dull since they were unable to go about their usual daily...
Some Ghanaians have shared their views following the announcement of internet disruption as result of outages on multiple submarine optic fibre cables that come into Ghana. Narrating their ordeal to JoyNews, some described the day as dull since they were unable to go about their usual daily...
A Russian Soyuz rocket is now scheduled to send three astronauts toward the ISS on Saturday (March 23), two days after a rare abort scuttled its first try. The rocket was supposed to launch the crewed Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on Thursday (March 21) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. That attempt...
Today, the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) announced a significant milestone in their space exploration collaboration with China: the signing of a protocol governing the operation of the MisrSat-2. This move underscores their joint commitment to advancing space technology for peaceful purposes. The...
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft meant to carry three astronauts to the International Space Station went through a rare abort on the launchpad just 21 seconds before it was supposed to launch. Yuri Borisov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, later put out a statement saying the launch was...