South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights to moon and more
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A new deep-space ground station will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond.
A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space agency officials said Tuesday. Through its Artemis programme, which aims to land the first woman or person of colour on the moon by 2025, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is targeting this month for an inaugural launch of its next-generation rocket ship, delayed for weeks by technical setbacks and foul weather. "Next week we should expect to launch the first flight of Artemis," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator and manager at...