Latest IAC2011 News
Keith Campbell of Creamer Media's Engineering News discusses the outcomes and implications of the IAC2011 on Second Take, Creamer Media's TV channel.
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South Africa's SumbadilaSAT - we're waiting for signs of life.
Our media liaison assists the press in exploring this weighty subject - 19 September 2011
Just part of the plumbing in our daily lives – that’s what space has become in the 21st century. “Space is ubiquitous, so integrated that it’s almost unnoticed in our daily living!” so says Peter Martinez, Chairman of the South African Council for Space Affairs, the Space Council. Think...
The final days of preparation for the congress, and the members of the Prepcom gather for the last time on 19th September 2011.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2009/09/17/spacemen-to-make-giant-leap-for-africa
On 17th September, the SAAO's Sivuyile Manxoyi Attracts attention to the IAC2011 in The Sunday Times.
“Remote-sensing satellites have changed the world as we know it – and how we know it.” After the launch of the Landsat program in the early ‘70’s, agricultural policymakers and planners soon realised that here was a tool that would revolutionize data-gathering.
Nowadays EARTH OBSERVATION is the sector probably most important in our everyday living, yet its benefits are relatively...
The Universe Awareness Programme (UNAWE) with which the S.A. Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is intimately involved, has been honoured with the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education(SPORE) Award. Science Magazine introduced the SPORE award to showcase the best educational resources available on the Internet and to bring them to a wider audience.
The SAAO's involvement...
Developing countries can participate in space and benefit from space at the same time. That's the view of one of South Africa's Space Pioneers - Sias Mostert, IPC co-chair and member of the local IAC Organising Committee. He is MD of Space Commercial Services Holdings, and was the team leader for SunSat, the first satellite in South Africa, the first in Africa. SunSat, largely...
Keith Campbell writes in S.A.'s ENGINEERING NEWS 26 July:
Global technology group Intel on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology and SKA South Africa to provide support for South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects.
The SKA is a €1.5-billion international radio telescope...
25 July 2011
THOMAS SCHIRMANN of the French aerospace company Astrium visited South Africa and presented seminars on satellite engineering, particularly Earth observation missions, to students and industry specialists at the F’SATI seminar in Cape Town.
Schirmann was Chief Engineer on the celebrated Venus Express science mission (ESA) from the start of the programme to the...
