Every year, a multi-disciplinary team is deployed to the Antarctic base – SANAE IV. This team is known as the “Year Team” as the deployment lasts 14 months before the team is replaced with a new one. The team consists of a doctor, a communication...
South Africa’s leading space women, Andiswa Mlisa and Lulu Makapela, have been appointed to represent the country in the Programme Board of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) for a 3-year period (2022 to 2024). The appointment was made by the Department of...
The National Research Foundation (NRF) rating system is a key driver in the NRF’s aim to build a globally competitive science system in South Africa. It is used as benchmark of South African based researchers against the best in the world. The ratings are...
The second South African satellite known as SumbandilaSat (‘pathfinder’ in Venda) reached the end of its life and de-orbited on 10 December 2021, burning up in the atmosphere. The satellite was launched in 2009 and took a total of 1 128 high-resolution, usable...
Space partnership between SANSA and UKSA formalised at IAC 2021 The world’s largest space conference, the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), took place in October 2021 in Dubai. At the conference, representatives from SANSA and the United...
