Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2008 - China's ambitious space programme is set to take a giant leap forward this week when three astronauts blast off on a mission to undertake the country's first space walk.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2008 - Flushed with success after a widely applauded Beijing Olympics, China will seek this week to further burnish its image with a new chapter in its quest to conquer space.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 - Africa needs its own space research agency, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a regional conference of communications ministers who met on Wednesday as the continent's IT sector grows.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 4, 2012 - African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2008 - After nearly half a century, China's space programme will this week attempt its first space walk during the mission of the Shenzhou VII, the nation's third manned space flight.
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2021 - For the first time on Wednesday, SpaceX is due to send into orbit a crew made up entirely of complete novices, without a professional astronaut on board.
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 - NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be dancing on the edge of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said.
Satellite navigation has become so deeply integrated into daily technology that many people rarely consider how complex the underlying systems are. By 2026, global geolocation is entering a new stage where accuracy, speed, and reliability are improving simultaneously.
Cape Canaveral (AFP) Feb 27, 2026 - NASA on Friday abruptly said it was shaking up its Artemis lunar program that has suffered multiple delays in recent years, a bid to ensure Americans can return to the Moon's surface by 2028.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2026 - Exolaunch has completed integration of five customer satellites for launch on Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket, scheduled no earlier than March 19, 2026 from Andoya spaceport in Norway. The mission,
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 27, 2026 - At the future departure gate for Chinas crewed lunar journeys at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, personnel in blue uniforms have been carrying out post
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2026 - Sateliot and PLD Space have signed a commercial contract for the dedicated launch of Sateliot's first two Trito next generation 5G direct to device satellites on a Miura 5 rocket in 2027. The agreem
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 20, 2026 - China has carried out its first maritime recovery of a rocket first-stage booster, retrieving the main stage of a Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket from the South China Sea following a key tes
Kourou (AFP) Feb 18, 2026 - 'Stop. Danger of death. Work in progress.'
Ithaca, NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 - If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces a
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 - Food production currently accounts for about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and agriculture places heavy pressure on biodiversity, water resources and water quality across Europe. Res
