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.
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’s Space Weather Regional Warning Centre in Hermanus, Western Cape Province, will become a 24/7 monitoring hub that provides vital space weather information to the international aviation industry.
One of Dr. Zama Katamzi-Joseph's aims during a trip to the United States as a 2019-2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar was to help establish a research collaboration with an American group to further her work on ionospheric dynamics over Africa.
“Even before I started school, I had this fascination with mathematics, and building blocks. I could sit for hours arranging blocks on a table forming abstract shapes and patterns.”
Travelling by ship to and from Antartica is best done during the austral summer, between November and March, when the weather is good and the days are long.