NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active years…
Browsing: satellites
The European Space Agency (Esa) recently announced a new mission of its science programme: a small telescope orbiting the Earth dubbed Arrakhis.…
On July 31 2013 a constellation of US defence satellites saw a streak of light over South Australia as a rock from…
Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space…
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody…
Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help…
Agenda 2063 is the African Union’s long-term framework for socio-economic development, regional integration and the preservation of history and culture. The…
Want to go to space? It could cost you. This month, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will make the first fully-private,…
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving…
On Feb. 19, 2022, an Antares rocket took off with the Cygnus cargo capsule to resupply the orbiting International Space Station (ISS)…