SANSA plans to build a new engineering design facility that will bring immense benefits to the space industry in South Africa. The European Space Agency (ESA) already has such a facility and has been sharing lessons learnt over 20 years
SANSA’s Science Centre in Hermanus celebrated 15 years of science outreach with new interactive space exhibits, like a space weather touch table and a replica of South African satellite, SumbandilaSat.
In 2019, SANSA Space Operations supported 22 international satellite launches and received data from over 4 500 satellite passes.
This year marks 50 years since man first set foot on the Moon, a feat celebrated by the International Astronautical Congress held in Washington DC, United States, in October 2019. SANSA attended the week-long event to show that South Africa
South Africa’s space sector remains fertile ground for growth, both economically and technologically, despite the country’s current economic slump. This was a key take home message from the second annual Space for National Development conference (SND 2019), hosted by SANSA
This is Amal Khatri’s philosophy: a person must first understand, “who am I?” before they can solve the world’s problems. “It's important that we understand our individual roles and the decisions we take for the long term sustainability of the planet,”
Entrepreneurs with ideas to transform the mining industry using earth observation data battled it out at the 4th SANSA Earth Observation Open Innovation Challenge.
First of its kind industry body to grow South Africa’s geospatial sector
When we think of space, we generally think of SciFi shows such as Star Trek, or humanity’s current plans to send manned missions to Mars. Most people don’t think about space as a business enabler, and yet that is exactly what it has become over the years.
The convergence of earth observation, space navigation and positioning, telecommunications and location intelligence is generating massive opportunities for companies in every sector. Observing the Earth, location and geospatial intelligence have rapidly gravitated to the core of digitisation and innovation.
In fact, the geospatial intelligence domain across the world is set to grow exponentially as more and more business data is integrated with location information across enterprise level functions. This rapid rate of growth can be accredited to the continuous technology advancements in the industry, the democratisation of geospatial information and integration with advancing digital technologies resulting in innovative business models such as Uber.
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