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• Newsletter 2019

March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

What’s Trending at SANSA?

   UKZN students rocket through Africa record The AeroSpace Systems Research Group from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) launched their Phoenix-1B Mk II rocket, reaching a height of 18 km above Overberg. The team of engineering students aimed for

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

Dr Steward Bernard anchors himself to bright future at SANSA

      As a boy, Dr. Stewart Bernard, would look upon the crystal waters of Lake Malawi, observing the myriad colours created by the many forms of life that called it home. It was the very beginning of his

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

Groundbreaking ceremony for Space Weather Centre

      SANSA broke ground at the site of the new 24-hour Regional Space Weather Centre during the official sod-turning ceremony in Hermanus on 9 March 2021. Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Blade Nzimande, attended the

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

NEOFrontiers is the new frontier for local earth observation

      NEOFrontiers or New Earth Observations Frontiers is a funding programme for developing new South African earth observation (EO) capabilities. It is an effort by SANSA and National Research Foundation (NRF) to grow public and private EO sectors

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

SANSA taking notes on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover

      NASA, the US-based space agency successfully landed the Perseverance Rover on 18 February 2021 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. This is NASA’s fourth rover mission to the red planet and it is the first to

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

Here’s to the next decade of reaching for the moon!

      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

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

All systems go for SpaceOps 2021 conference

      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

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

Sprite height measured over Africa for the first time

      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

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March 29, 2021

• Vaneshree Maharaj

SANSA appoints first research chair

   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

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