Marine Domain Awareness

April 14, 2022

Celebrating South Africa’s first space squadron

  Move over Top Gun … South Africa has just deployed its constellation of nanosatellites to monitor the marine environment called MDASats! On 13 January 2022, a Falcon 9 rocket, designed, developed, assembled and operated by renowned company SpaceX,

Phase 1 done

April 14, 2022

24/7 Operational Space Weather Centre – Project update

[caption id="attachment_11237" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The 24/7 operations will commence during 2022[/caption]   Phase 1 of SANSA’s 24/7 Operational Space Weather Centre build has been completed. This includes the construction of the Space Weather Centre, guest accommodation, generator house and

Artists concept of the GOES-T satellite in orbit Credit Lockheed Martin

April 14, 2022

Mission critical: Space Operations supports NASA GOES-T launch

[caption id="attachment_11222" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Artist’s concept of the GOES-T satellite in orbit. Credit: Lockheed Martin[/caption]   The SANSA Space Operations team at Hartebeeshoek is currently supporting the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T mission aboard the Atlas 5 (AV-095)

Ms Andiswa and Dr Valanthan Munsami

April 14, 2022

A new season at SANSA

[caption id="attachment_11216" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Ms Andiswa Mlisa and Dr Valanthan Munsami[/caption]   As autumn turns to winter, it heralds a change at SANSA. The tenure of its CEO over the past five years, Dr Valanthan Munsami, has ended. During

February 18, 2022

Sponsored Specialised Training in Machine Learning for Earth Observation with Application in Agriculture Are you (or your staff or your students) keen on taking machine learning and remote sensing to smart agriculture? As part of FAIR Forward’s goal on

Sentinel 1, Satellite image

February 17, 2022

South African National Space Agency (SANSA) disaster management tools South Africa has been experiencing heavy rainfalls over the past weeks. heavy rainfall have caused flooding in various parts of the country affecting thousands of households. SANSA has developed disaster

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