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...
    In 2016, sprites were observed over southern Africa for the very first time, but researchers did not know how high they occur. SANSA researcher and PhD student, Dakalo Mashao, has just published the answer in the South African Journal of Science (SAJS). Sprites...
  Solar physicist, Dr Martin Snow, will take up his position as SANSA’s very first SARCHI Research Chair at the Space Weather Centre in Hermanus on 1 April 2021. “This appointment is a fundamental milestone in the development of an operational space weather...
 SpaceOps 2021 will be virtual and free SpaceOps 2020 could not be hosted in 2020 and has transformed to SpaceOps2021 – Virtual Edition and will be hosted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic SpaceOps 2021 Virtual Edition will allow more industry players and delegates...