NewSpace Systems (NSS) has built a commercially funded, ground-up space focused facility in Southern Africa. According to the company, this facility makes NSS’s commercially funded expansion a first in South Africa. The project encompassed the construction of a new facility designed from its foundations up to address the specific satellite manufacture and test requirements, since the ’80s, when the South African Government established the Houwteq site, a South African facility constructed from the ground-up to handle spacecraft manufacture, assembly, integration and test (MAIT). 

In addition to its growing manufacturing facility in Cape Town, South Africa, the NSS innovation team has moved out to a second location nearby, where they benefit from dedicated laboratory areas for the R&D projects they are working on. There is also extensive co-development and project-specific activities which NSS has outsourced to the NSS teams based in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.