Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
RECA Space Agency’s African Space Mission
A Douala-based space agency presents programs in satellite systems, propulsion, radio astronomy, Earth observation, robotics, communications, and astronaut preparation.
Why it surfacedRECA’s homepage lays out an unusually broad regional science mission, including a claimed partnership with the University of Douala to track Artemis II, a proposed RSA-1 tropical-observation nanosatellite, and a roadmap for an African deep-space radio network. Whether every ambition reaches orbit is still an open question, but the site makes the attempt legible.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.