With only eight people currently on Marion Island, social distancing is a natural feature of the year-long 77th Marion Island Expedition.
From collecting data in sub-zero Antarctica to rapid circuit prototyping on the International Space Station (ISS), South African modular “xChip” manufacturer XinaBox (pronounced "X-in-a-box") is reinventing the way in which the Internet of Things (IoT) is approached.
With only eight people currently on Marion Island, social distancing is a natural feature of the year-long 77th Marion Island Expedition.
The South African government has given the go-ahead for SANSA and NASA to look into placing a space vehicle tracking and communications ground station in Matjiesfontein, Western Cape.
COVID-19 lockdowns all over the world have revealed clearer city skies and a noticeable improvement in air quality. Such stark changes show just how much big, busy cities affect air quality, says SANSA researcher Lerato Shikwambana.
SANSA's data on the South Atlantic Anomaly is in demand as the phenomenon’s area of influence rapidly expands, potentially threatening satellite communications and navigation in southern Africa.
From manual consoles to digital dashboards in the cloud, Joel Sekwakwa and Cornelius Mokgadi have seen it all over 20 years of capturing and processing data from satellites.
SANSA provides important satellite data and products to help the government respond to COVID-19, including data for contact tracing and mapping spaza shops affected by the lockdown.
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
SANSA joined global talks with governments and industries that focussed, for the first time, on the ubiquitous availability of Earth Observation (EO) data.