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

March 14, 2022

Postponement of SND- SA-GEO event

[caption id="attachment_11058" align="alignleft" width="843"] Event has been postponed to the near future.[/caption] Dear Stakeholder We regret to inform you that the above-scheduled event is postponed until further notice, due to a recent directive issued by the National Treasury on

March 4, 2022

SANSA Space Operations Supports NASA GOES-T Launch

04 March 2022 On Wednesday, 2 March 2022, the SANSA Space Operations team at Hartebeeshoek supported the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T mission aboard the Atlas 5 (AV-095) rocket. GOES-T is a new weather satellite by National Oceanic

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