The South African National Space Agency's (SANSA) Earth Observation directorate collaboratively hosted a Spectrometer training together with Southern Mapping Company - the Spectral Evolution instruments' African partner - on 11 February 2013 at Hartebeesthoek. Both SANSA and Southern Mapping Company have
The North West Provincial Government (NWPG) has been working with SANSA (CSIR's Satellite Application Centre at the time) since 2007. The main objective of the project is to collaboratively develop an informal settlements database used during the Upgrade Informal Settlement Programme
The South African National Space Agency's (SANSA) Earth Observation directorate will be distributing its annual Fundisa disk to tertiary institutions around South Africa in the form of a Road Show this October, to coincide with World Space Week. The Fundisa disk
Thuli Wistebaar recently attended a satellite application technology training workshop offered by CAST Shenzhou Institute (CSI) in Beijing. The duration of the training was from 9 to 27 July and involved 22 participants from across Africa, including: Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Congo,
SANSA provided launch support to INTELSAT 20 satellite, weighing 6094 kg and built by SPACE SYSTEMS LORAL in Palo Alto (California) for INTELSAT SATELLITE LLC in Luxembourg. INTELSAT 20 will deliver high-power distribution of video, voice and data network services
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Image: SANSA Space Operations MD Raoul Hodges and International Business manager Tiaan Strydom leading by example.[/caption] The 7 September 2012 was declared National Arbor Week. In support of this initiative, employees at the South African National Space
The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Scientific Assembly was held in Mysore, India from 14 - 22 July 2012. SANSA was represented at COSPAR 2012 by Dr Lee-Anne McKinnell (MD Space Science), Dr Andrew Collier (SANSA Researcher), Dr Zama Katamzi
A team from the State Department of the USA visited the facilities of SANSA Space Science on 19 July 2012 and were hosted by SANSA researcher, Dr Pieter Kotze. The five person team from the USA State Department was headed
The SANSA Space Science Technology group visited Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit, an underground scientific laboratory in France. The team conducted magnetic surveys of the tunnel structure where a SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device) magnetometer is located. The SANSA team
Dr Lee-Anne McKinnell, MD of SANSA Space Science, travelled to Lusaka in Zambia for the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between SANSA and the University of Zambia. SANSA will be collaborating on a number of space science