Early in July 2021, South Africa experienced the worst civil unrest and mass destruction of property in the country’s democratic history. The violence occurred in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Billions of Rands were lost in a matter of days as hundreds of...
The extensive upgrades to the Space Weather Regional Warning Centre in Hermanus are well underway and the project is moving at a good pace, despite sometimes challenging and quite ironically, weather conditions. New foundations The contractors have started laying the...
A major milestone has been reached at SANSA Space Operations site this year, with the conversion of electricity from American to South African frequency. For more than 60 years, the station has used the American standard for its power grid. This was as a result of the...
Digital Earth Africa is an ongoing international programme that makes Earth observation (EO) data free and accessible. It delivers decision-ready products to the African continent, thereby helping to improve the lives of people across Africa by translating EO data...
Heads of the space agencies in the BRICS nations met virtually on August 18, 2021. Apart from sharing updates on each other space agency activities, the BRICS Space Agency leaders signed an Agreement on the Cooperation on BRICS Remote Sensing Satellite Constellation....
