Nairobi — An out-of-control satellite weighing nearly one and a half tonnes is breaking up in outer space - and the debris could fall on Kenya. Forty fragments weighing a total 600kg - the weight of a ...

NAIROBI — Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk’s rocket company showed. The satellite ...

Kenya’s Space Agency (KSA) recently deployed its first earth observation satellite into space, setting new grounds for the East African country as it moves to leverage accurate and timely space data.

Houston we have a problem! That old emergency slogan may now have a new solution and it may very well hail from the last place you would expect, Malindi, Kenya. If you are as uninformed as I am, then ...

Engineers test a satellite news gathering unit. Previously, Kenya had to seek approval from Italy before being granted access to data generated by the satellite facility based in Malindi. /Peterson ...

Set for launch tomorrow Friday May 11, 2018 at 1 pm, the satellite measuring about 10 by 10 centimetre cube and weighing 1.2 kilogrammes was delivered into a large spacecraft built by several ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Using Sentinel-1 radar imagery from the European Space Agency, the Forest2020 project has mapped a part of Kenya’s previously hard-to-assess ...

Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country’s space programme, the government said on Monday. Taifa-1, or one nation in Swahili, is scheduled ...

NAIROBI — Kenya's first operational satellite was launched into orbit on Saturday by a SpaceX rocket that took off from California, USA, according to images from the US space company. The launch, ...