NASA has released high-resolution colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built and takes pictures in infrared. Infrared light is radiation given off in form of heat energy. It can Read More …
Three Russian cosmonauts, currently in the ISS, pictured posing with the flags of Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, have angered NASA. On July 4, 2022 Roscosmos posted two pictures of cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev Read More …
The three Shenzou-14 taikonauts will be talking with African youths from space. This is to encourage their interest in space science and technology. The event planned for late August, 2022 will be televised live in China’s state-controlled media, CGTN. A Read More …
Iran launched its Zoljanah (also spelled Zuljanah) satellite carrier rocket on 27 June, 2022 amidst tension. The rocket: 25.5 metres tall with a diameter of 1.5 metres, weighing 52 tonnes, can take a payload of 220 kilogams (485 lbs) into Read More …
This is a true picture of a rock, the size of a bowling ball, precariously balanced on a slightly bent boulder in Mars. It is in an area called Hogwallows flats in Jezero crater in Mars. The picture was taken Read More …
Egypt has launched Nilesat 301, another communications satellite. It was launched with a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 8 June, 2022. The launch was through a geostationary transfer Read More …
The Director-General of Nigeria’s space agency – National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA – Dr Ahmed Shaba Halilu, has decried the fact that all satellites owned by it have gone past their design life and are yet to be Read More …
China’s 240 kg, six-wheel Mars rover, Zhurong, rolled-off its ramp on 22 May, 2021 to begin its Martian probe. Zhurong has six instruments, including a camera, and will search for water and any sign of life on the red planet Read More …
Scientists from the University of Florida successfully grew plants in Moon regolith or soil collected from the Moon. Regolith on the Moon or Mars differs from soil on Earth because it is made up of mainly silicate mineral, that is Read More …
The new Director-General of Nigeria’s space agency, the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Dr Halilu Shaba Ahmed, has assumed office. The handing-over ceremony between the new Director-General and the Acting, Dr Francis Chizea, was completed on 5 May, Read More …
