Nigcomsat ltd, owners of Nigeria’s communications satellite, Nigcomsat-1R, held a retreat in Abuja with the theme: Refining the Nigcomsat roadmap for exponential growth. This is the first under the new Managing Director, Tukur Mohammed Lawal, who was not happy with Read More …
February, 2021 is widely seen as a Mars’ month and perhaps, rightly so, because of the successful entry into Martian orbit of three spacecraft that month. The first to arrive on 9 February, 2021 and make orbital insertion was Hope, or Al Read More …
Why do things fall on Earth? The English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), who was reputed for becoming Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge at the age of 26 years was sitting under an apple tree, in a contemplative mood, and Read More …
SpaceX’s Starlink internet services have taken-off in Nigeria. This is shortly after the country’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami’s assurance that the services will soon start in the country. A software engineer in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria, Bello Read More …
For centuries, scientists have suspected that the Universe was not static but, without a model or proof. If the Universe is static and filled with stars, any direction one looks in the sky is supposed to end eventually on a Read More …
China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket, used to launch Mengtian laboratory, the final module for Tiangong Space Station, on 31 October, 2022 has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth. It crashed into the Southcentral Pacific Ocean about Read More …
China has successfully launched Mengtian laboratory module, the third and final component of its space station, Tiangong, that is under construction. The laboratory module was launched atop China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket on 31 October, 2022 Read More …
South Korea has launched its first fully domestically produced space rocket. The three-stage rocket, KSLV-II Nuri, was launched at the Naro Space Centre, Goheung, on 21 October, 2021 (09:00 WAT), with the intention of putting a 1.5-tonne payload into a Read More …
SpaceX Crew-4 returned from the ISS on 14 October, 2022 after 170 days in space. The astronauts who are members of SpaceX Crew-4 are: Commander Kjell Lindgren; Mission Specialist, Jessica Watkins; Pilot Robert “Bob” Hines, all of NASA, and European Read More …
Italian astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, makes history as the first European woman to ever command the ISS. On 28 September, 2022 cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev handed over the symbolic key and command of the orbital station to her. Samantha Cristoforetti first traveled Read More …
