Satellite

Still from Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass, part of the Leonardo da Vinci retrospective at the Louvre museum in Paris that opened 24 October 2019.

International report

Culture in France - the best of 2019

An image from the US Landsat 7 satellite, showing cotton fields in between the White Nile (l) and Blue Nile (r) outside of Khartoum. Sudan will soon produce their own satellite images

Sudan - aerospace

Sudan launches first satellite, with China’s help

This computer-generated image released by the European Space Agency shows trackable objects in orbit around Earth.

Space Exploration

Why tracking space junk is big business

The aircraft is carrying two satellites which will provide connectivity to a number of continents

Successful French Guiana rocket takes off with two satellites

A Ballistic Missile Defence Interceptor takes off to hit one of India's satellites in the first such test, from the Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Island, in the eastern state of Odisha, India, 27 March, 2019.

India anti-satellite missile test a warning to China

French Defence minister Florence Parly and her Finnish counterpart Jussi Niinisto (not pictured) during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, August 23, 2018.

France to spend €3.6bn on upgrading military satellites

A stil from an Arianespace video shows the launch of the Aeolus from French Guyana

EU wind survey satellite launched from French Guyana

An artist's impression of the Sentinel-1B satellite which will be launched from French Guiana on Friday.

French satellite to test principle of Theory of Relativity

The opening of the SANSA space centre by Minister for Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, 9 Decembre 2010.

About Time: SciFest festival kicks off

A teacher writes on the blackboard at Akroso school, Central Region, Ghana

Spotlight on Africa

Satellite technology reinvigorates Ghana teacher training

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes during a visit to the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces on the occasion of the new year, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency

How dangerous is North Korea's latest satellite launch plan?

The AMOS-6 satellite will use high gain spot beams to cover large parts of West, East and Southern Africa.

Facebook targeting 14 African countries with satellite internet initiative, says Eutelsat CEO

Marwan Lahoud, chief strategy of Airbus and Jean-Paul Herteman, chief executive officer of Safran at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 16 June 2014.

France - Europe

Aerospace giant Airbus and French engine maker Safran team up for Arianespace

Calling all Martians

An image of the galaxy captured by the Atacama Large MillimeterArray (ALMA), a group of radio telescopes in Chile.

Astronomers marvel at the skies above

Members of terrorist group Boko Haram

African news explained

Nigerian military wants satellite phone ban to counter Boko Haram

Japan fears that the launch of North Korean satellite would be a long-range missile launch

World news explained

Worries about North Korea's plan to launch a satellite

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