African Space Program

The south african national space agency is south africa s government agency responsible for the promotion and development of aeronautics and aerospace space research.

African space program. In 1964 edward mukuka nkoloso high school teacher and self appointed director of zambia s national space program had the bold ambition of beating the. Astrofica s internship program is building a talent pipeline for africa s space industry joseph ibeh saka oluwakemi july 23 2020 astrofica a fully blacked owned satellite technology solutions provider with a core capability in the assembly integration and testing of satellite systems has set out. Cristina de middel s new photography exhibition called the afronauts explores the space program.

Cnn african space programs are nothing new. African folklore by turning our folklore stories into video games and immersing the player in a magical african virtual landscape kea s world merges video games and african stories in a way that is interactive educational and fun. New york the short lived zambian space program is now reborn thanks to a spanish artist.

It fosters cooperation in space related activities and research in space science seeks to advance scientific engineering through human capital as well as the peaceful use of outer space and supports the creation of an environment conducive to the industrial development of space technologies within the framework of national gover. Help me on patreon. Before america put a man on the moon zambia tried to go to mars.

Guion bluford would become the first african american astronaut to go to space. There are several space research organizations that are engaged in activities related to outer space and space exploration in africa and according to the business and market analysis of the african space industry done by space in africa over 3 billion have been spent on space projects in africa since the launch of nilesat 101 by egypt in 1998. African space programs have been in existence for more than 50 years.

South african space sector set to grow with new space infrastructure hub 27 august 2020 digital earth africa releases analysis ready satellite data for all of africa that can support covid 19 response and recovery 19 june 2020.