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August 25, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

What’s happening at SANSA

  Find out what events are taking place at SANSA. Planning is underway for SANSA and Industry participation at IAC 2021 (https://www.iafastro.org/events/iac/iac-2021/ ) A Women’s Day Webinar will feature the phenomenal young women in STEM. The date will be

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August 25, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

Trending in space – August 2021

    Latest space science research from around the world. This month in space history 6 August 1181: a supernova was observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers 28 August 1789: Sir William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus is

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

SANSA Science Centre gets a makeover

The SANSA Hermanus Science Centre has had a makeover and it’s a feast for the eyes! The recent upgrade was undertaken in a bid to make the Science Centre more engaging and fun for learners. The makeover included a

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

Partnering with Russia to build the PanEOS antenna

With South Africa being a member of BRICS, SANSA has recently signed a bilateral agreement with Roscosmos (the Russian State corporation for space activities) to build the PanEOS antenna. This is Roscosmos’s “Optical-Electronic Complex for Detection and Measurement of

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

SpaceOps 2021 – Virtual Edition

Since the inception of SpaceOps in 1990, the organisation has hosted fifteen biennial conferences in various countries around the world. In 2020, SANSA was supposed to host SpaceOps 2020 in Cape Town. Unfortunately, as a result of the Covid-19

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

SANSA and ZASpace Inc provide platform for Industry engagement

South African space industry body, ZASpace Inc., recently hosted a virtual industry event themed ‘Space Infrastructure Hub: Industry Update’. SANSA CEO Dr Valanathan Munsami was invited as the special guest speaker at the two-hour event, which was held on 27

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

Finding clues about our universe through the measure of the sun

Have you ever wondered what causes dark sunspots to appear, and what triggers explosions like solar flares?  The surface of the Sun is hot enough to glow, but the outer layers are so hot they shine brightly in X-rays. 

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

#RebuildSA with a little help from space

Early in July 2021, South Africa experienced the worst civil unrest and mass destruction of property in the country’s democratic history. The violence occurred in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Billions of Rands were lost in a matter of

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

R90 million upgrades tracking steady progress

The extensive upgrades to the Space Weather Regional Warning Centre in Hermanus are well underway and the project is moving at a good pace, despite sometimes challenging and quite ironically, weather conditions. New foundations The contractors have started laying

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August 20, 2021

• Daleen Fouche

A win for the green & gold – we’ve been converted!

A major milestone has been reached at SANSA Space Operations site this year, with the conversion of electricity from American to South African frequency. For more than 60 years, the station has used the American standard for its power grid.

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