US President-elect, Donald Trump, has nominated space enthusiast Jared Isaacman as the next Administrator of NASA. Jared has accepted the offer and made a post on December 4, 2024, to briefly outline his vision for NASA. “I am honored to Read More …
NigComSat-1, a large geo-stationary satellite weighing 5,150 kg (11,350 lbs), which Nigerian Communications Satellite ltd, NigComSat ltd, owns was launched on 13 May, 2007. It was the first communications satellite from Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. It developed a solar array Read More …
The Moon appears fuller and brighter when, in its elliptical orbit, it is getting closer to the Earth. When it is closest, it appears 14% bigger in size and 30% brighter – relative to its farthest position – and is Read More …
The National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Nigeria’s space agency, says it has approval to launch four new satellites. The Director-General, Dr Matthew Adepoju, says President Bola Tinubu has given approval for the building and launch of four satellites Read More …
SpaceX Crew-9 was launched on 28 September, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with Falcon 9 rocket. Instead of four astronauts – Nick Hague, Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov from Roscosmos, Stephanie Wilson and Zena Cardman – it Read More …
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company’s first commercial suborbital spaceflight for fee-paying tourists on 29 June, 2023 has been held. The flight, which took the crew to the edge of space, was earlier planned for a launch window between 27 Read More …
The National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, on 19 June, 2024, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Space Exploration and Research Agency, SERA, to send the first Nigerian to suborbital space. SERA, a Delaware, USA, based company with the Read More …
The first American woman in space is Sally Ride, on STS – 7 mission with Challenger spacecraft, on June 18, 1983. At 32 years old, she was also the youngest American in space then with four male crew mates. They Read More …
The capsule carrying Shenzhou-15 astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region safely 23:34 WAT on 3 June, 2023. They were replaced by the three astronauts Read More …
Boeing Starliner’s crewed mission to the ISS planned for 21 July, 2023 has been postponed. The mission was to take NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore to the orbital station. The parachute for landing the capsule on its Read More …
