From helping marine vessels avoid explosive sea mines, to assisting aircraft find their way through the Earths magnetic field, SANSA's Applied Science and Technology (AST) unit uses its unique expertise to demagnetise and calibrate. A division of SANSA, AST has
Deliberations amongst a group of remote sensing expects at the G7 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations Working Group, technology and employment, recognised the value of space based technology for the benefit of society. Subsequently, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
Empowering young women to follow careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) was under the spotlight recently at a YOUTH DAY SPACE PREP workshop in Cape Town where senior SANSA representatives assisted young learners to build small, programmable robotic
1. Preamble Regulation 3 of the Use of Official Languages Act, Act No 12 of 2012 ("UOLA") requires the entities of the Department of Science and Technology to publish its proposed language policy in the Government Gazette for public comment before
SANSA took part in the 2015 inaugural Innovation Bridge at the CSIR International Convention Centre. This event, which was held on 2-3 February 2015, is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and aims to provide the
We often take for granted that the technology we have become so accustomed to rely on daily can be affected not only by weather on Earth but also by more extreme weather in space. An extreme space weather event, or solar
Space science and technology is one of the five great challenges in South Africas 10-year Innovation Plan. South Africas space landscape is guided by the National Space Policy, while the National Space Strategy defines the outcomes of a National Space
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) is today launching an exciting collection of tools for learners in the country, in support of the geography curriculum at high school. This launch is one of the initiatives SANSA and the Department of