Highlight of the €13 million projects funded by GMES & Africa
GMES and Africa Support Programme is a €30 million joint Programme co-financed by the European Commission and the African Union Commission. It will use and adapt the Copernicus Programme data and services in the African context. It is designed to specifically respond to African needs with respect to services related to water, natural resources, marine and coastal areas and to address the global…
Africa Regional Data Cube Initiative – Providing solutions to Africa’s major problems
The Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) is a new tool that harnesses the latest Earth observation and satellite technology to help Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Tanzania address food security as well as issues relating to agriculture, deforestation, and water access.
The data cube was developed by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) in partnership with the Group on Earth…
17 countries to implement IAU100 Global Projects in Africa
In 2019, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, the IAU is organising a year-long celebration to increase awareness of a century of astronomical discoveries as well as to support and improve the use of astronomy as a tool for education, development and diplomacy under the central theme "Under One Sky".
The centennial…
DARA announces scholarship recipients for 2nd African Space Generation Workshop
The DARA project (Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy) is led by the University of Leeds School of Physics and Astronomy and supported by Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. as an industry partner, as well as partners including the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, the South African National Space Agency and the Universities of Hertfordshire, Manchester, Oxford, Bristol and Central…
Meet 23 year old Ruvimbo who led Africa to win the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot World Finals
On the afternoon of Thursday, October 4th, 2018, Africa made history by winning the finals of the 2018 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court finals in Bremen, Germany during the 2018 IAC . This is the first time Africa would be winning the finals since its inception in 1992 by the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) breaking the 26 year record. 23 year old Ruvimbo Samanga coached the winning…
Ethiopia to host 8th African Leadership Conference in 2019
The African Leadership Conference (ALC) steering committee have announced Ethiopia to be the host of the 8th African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in 2019. This was done during the just concluded 7th edition of the conference held in Abuja, Nigeria.
The African Regional Conference is organized bi-annually to gather all experts and key players…
Women in Aerospace Africa meets at ALC – to organize 1st regional workshop in 2019
The community of the female gender in Aerospace has been growing in the continent with more women getting involved in the industry and contributing greatly to it (one of it is the case of Beza Tesfaye, a young lady from Ethiopia who was appointed as the General Manager of the Ethiopian Space Science Society earlier this year). The Women in Aerospace - Africa was established by Eng. Nwanneka…
ESSTI Mirjana Pović wins Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science
In 2018, Nature launched two new Nature Research Awards: the Inspiring Science Award and the Innovating Science Award.
The Inspiring Science Award celebrates an outstanding early career researcher who self-identifies as female
The Innovating Science Award will honour an individual or organisation who has driven initiatives to encourage girls or young women to engage with STEM subjects…
Meet Ibukun Adebolu, one of Africa’s most promising Aerospace Engineers
With the rapid growth in the African Space Industry, it is important that skills and man-power needed to match the growth is available in Africa - it's 2018 and it is important for Africa to lean towards putting some form of limit to the outsourcing of the development of space technologies for its usage. The story of how China bugged the African Union’s Chinese-built headquarters for more than…
DARA wins Better Satellite World Award
A team including satellite communications innovator Goonhilly Earth Station and a consortium of universities and institutes led by the University of Leeds’ School of Physics and Astronomy today announced that they have won a Better Satellite World Award for the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) project.
DARA, a Newton Fund project led by Professor Melvin Hoare of the University of…