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 …
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, visited President Vladimir Putin on 11 October, 2022 to discuss protection of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Grossi is seeking for a nuclear safety Read More …
Radiation is energy from any source travelling through space or some material. It can be in the form of light, heat or sound. It can also be in the form of radioactivity or emissions from unstable atoms giving-off some excess Read More …
Russia has announced the take-over of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on 5 October, 2022 signed into law the Russian parliament’s approval of the result of the referendum in four occupied territories belonging to Read More …
The World Health Organisation has raised a health alert and barred people from using four Indian-made cough medications after the death of 66 children in Gambia, West Africa. The drugs are: Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Read More …
The Nigeria Conservation Foundation, NCF, has offered scholarships in the University of Calabar, Nigeria, for studies in wildlife conservation to save endangered gorillas. The natural habitat of gorillas is threatened by logging and deforestation. The NCF thought that gorillas were extinct Read More …
Nigeria has inaugurated a National Council on Climate Change. The council is to formulate appropriate policies for achieving lower Green House gas emission in the country. It will also seek ways to promote sustainable growth of the economy. The Council 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 …
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft was deliberately, crashed into an asteroid on 27 September, 2022 as part of a study to defend the Earth from incoming asteroids that may pose a threat. The collision was at more than Read More …
Landsat, arguably, the most successful Earth Observation satellite series in the world, launched its 9th satellite on 27 September, 2021. It was launched with an Atlas rocket from the Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, Read More …
