In 2022, the BRICS nations created the BRICS Joint Committee on Space Cooperation to enable member space agencies to collaborate on matters pertaining to environmental protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, and managing climate change impacts with efficient...
On Friday night 10 May and Saturday Morning 11 May, a historic geomagnetic storm impacted the Earth and caused a very rare occurrence of Aurora Australis or Southern lights, which were visible over South Africa. Storm conditions reached G5 / Extreme conditions. This...
A historic solar storm impacted Earth throughout the night on Friday, 10 May 2024 and continued into Saturday, 11 May 2024. The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Space Weather Centre issued several G4 warnings and, for the first time since 2003, one G5...
Space weather is caused by explosions on the Sun that can interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere and disrupt our technological systems both in space and on the ground. Industries that rely on navigation and telecommunication services are...
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) hosted the Earth Observation (EO) for Climate Change stakeholder engagement workshop on 29 April 2024. The objective of the workshop was to showcase some of the Earth observation and Earth intelligence activities that...
