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GFA President Kurt Okraku (middle) Head coach of Ghana’s National Under 20 Men’s Football Team (the Black Satellites), Desmond Ofei says Ghana’s gold medal win at the African Games is sure to get the team more support and exposure. He said this in his interview after guiding the Black Satellites to beat Uganda 1-0 and […]
WASHINGTON — The Canadian Department of National Defense became the first international partner to access the U.S. Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite network, the U.S. Space Force announced Nov. 30. MUOS, developed by the U.S. Navy, is used for voice, video and data transmissions over a narrowband network of satellites in geosynchronous orbit — […]
SpaceX just extended its Falcon 9 rocket-reuse record. Space.com reports: The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday at 11:38 p.m. EDT (0338 GMT Sept. 20), carrying 22 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth 8.5 minutes […]
Update for 9:56 am ET: SpaceX is targeting a later launch time for today’s Falcon 9 launch of 13 military satellites on its second Tranche-0 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency. Liftoff is now set for 10:56 a.m. EDT (1456 GMT), a 30-minute delay. SpaceX will launch a set of military satellites […]
WASHINGTON — A senior Biden administration official says that U.S. spy satellites detected an explosion at the Kakhovka dam just before it collapsed, but American analysts still do not know who caused the dam’s destruction or how exactly it happened. The official said that satellites equipped with infrared sensors detected a heat signature consistent with […]
China is allegedly developing advanced cyber weapons capable of disabling enemy satellites, thus preventing any data signals or surveillance during war, as per a US intelligence leak, reported by the Financial Times. China aims to control information as a “war-fighting domain”, with the US suspecting their satellite capabilities development targets to “deny, exploit or hijack” […]
SDA delivers first 10 satellites on-orbit, two-and-a-half years from award to launch The Space Development Agency (SDA) today announced the successful initial launch of Tranche 0 (T0) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), the Transport and Tracking Layer satellites that will demonstrate the low-latency communication links to support the warfighter with a resilient network […]
Indian Space Research Organisations’ heaviest rocket LVM3-M2 on its maiden commercial mission on Sunday successfully placed 36 broadband communication satellites of a UK-based customer into the intended orbits, the space agency said, describing the mission as ‘historic’. Launch delayed due to the Ukraine war OneWeb Ltd is the UK-based customer of NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL), […]
SEOUL, March 10 (Reuters) – North Korea will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide real-time information on military actions by the United States and its allies, state media on Thursday reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying. While inspecting North Korea’s National Aerospace Development Administration, Kim said “a lot” of […]
A Space Force general said American satellites are attacked by adversaries every day in ways that flirt with “acts of war,” and the US will lose a space arms race if it doesn’t take action. China and Russia regularly strike US satellites with lasers, radiofrequency jammers, and cyber attacks, Gen. David Thompson told The Washington […]