    SANSA broke ground at the site of the new 24-hour Regional Space Weather Centre during the official sod-turning ceremony in Hermanus on 9 March 2021. Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Blade Nzimande, attended the event after he toured the...
    NEOFrontiers or New Earth Observations Frontiers is a funding programme for developing new South African earth observation (EO) capabilities. It is an effort by SANSA and National Research Foundation (NRF) to grow public and private EO sectors in the country....
    NASA, the US-based space agency successfully landed the Perseverance Rover on 18 February 2021 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. This is NASA’s fourth rover mission to the red planet and it is the first to host a tiny helicopter, with plans to collect Mars...
    Every space-faring mission needs a stable launchpad and support infrastructure upon which a high-powered rocket can take off. After spending the last decade building this infrastructure, the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is finally ready to blast...
    Who will be first to land on Mars – NASA or SpaceX? And how do we keep track of the thousands of objects being launched into orbit by companies all over the world? These are some of the questions that participants of the SpaceOps2021 conference will try to...
