Space
23 Nov
Advance in space and satellite technology, combined with evolving wireless connectivity, are essential to connect people, who remain excluded from the digital revolution, according to participants at the recently concluded
5 Aug 2022
South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network
26 Jun 2022
Recently, there have been concerns about climate change and the need to recycle, reuse and repurpose organic and inorganic wastes to reduce pollution.
3 May 2022
The 25-year roadmap for the implementation of the National Space Policy (NSP) as envisioned by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is currently
23 Oct 2021
NASA is aiming to launch its uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 in February next year, the space agency said Friday, the first step
17 Oct 2021
A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS)
22 Aug 2021
A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into space carrying 34 new satellites from British operator Oneweb, which aims to provide broadband internet everywhere in the world.
12 Jul 2021
Richard Branson completed a daring, barnstorming flight to the edge of space Sunday, rocketing through the atmosphere in the spaceplane he’d been yearning to ride for nearly 20 years. The suborbital trip gave the British billionaire, his three crewmates, and two pilots a glimpse of the Earth from more than 50 miles up and a…
11 Jul 2021
Billionaire Richard Branson took off Sunday from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space, a voyage he hopes will lift the nascent space tourism
1 Jul 2021
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin firm announced Thursday that barrier-breaking woman aviator Wally Funk, 82, will be the fourth passenger on the billionaire's space trip. The trip to space is 60 years overdue for Funk, who was one of the Mercury 13, the first women trained to fly to space from 1960-1961, but excluded because of…
17 Jun 2021
A petition calling for billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be denied re-entry to Earth following his spaceflight next month has garnered thousands of signatures online. The Change.org petition, as of the time of this report, has gained over 12,000 signatures since it was created last week. Titled "Petition To Not Allow Jeff Bezos Re-Entry…
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One of the fastest-growing banks in Nigeria, PremiumTrust Bank, has bagged the LEADERSHIP Most Innovative Bank of the Year 2022 award at an elaborate ceremony which held on Tuesday in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has introduced a Nigerian Internal Security and Public Safety Alert System (N-Alerts), for the report of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) before, during and after the general election.
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Police officers in Plymouth have transported a swan to the veterinarian in the trunk of a car after they got reports that it was hit by a car. According to Plymouth police, officers were summoned to the city's Mutley Plain neighborhood. Officers reported that a swan had been taken from Plymouth Harbour by a "drunk male"…