15 May Space Weather Alert
Our life giving star, the Sun, has unleashed three large filaments – one on 11 May and two on 13 May. A CME impact is expected on 16 May due to these filament eruptions.
22 Jan Space Talk at SANSA – Space Tackling Global Challenges
Join the SANSA team in Hermanus for this fascinating public talk by the Director General of the European Space Agency. Don’t miss out on this opportunity - book your space now!
17 Jan Meteor of 16 January over Western Cape
CCTV video from a farm near Malmesbury of the meteor sighted over the Western Cape at 20h15 on 16 Jan 2019
14 Jan SA Space Agency selected as regional space weather centre for the aviation sector
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has been selected by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as one of two regional centres to provide space weather services, including solar storm forecasts and warnings, to the global aviation sector. “South Africa's
31 Oct Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object.
10 Apr Another eye towards the sky – unveiling South Africa’s Optical Space Research Laboratory
SANSA's robust endeavours to strengthen the country's role in multinational space science research, this time specifically in upper-atmosphere studies, come to fruition with the unveiling of the Optical Space Research (OSR) Laboratory at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in
13 Oct SANSA hosts VERSIM and Radiation Belt symposia in Hermanus
Space science, specifically Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) and Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves in the magnetosphere and ionosphere, as well as space plasma and radiation belt phenomena, were topics of dynamic discourse recently between representatives from two international space science
28 Jul From Africa, for Africa – contributing to science and the world community
Early-career research excellence has again seen Dr John Bosco Habarulema, a space science researcher at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) in Hermanus, as the recipient of an award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) this time as