Joint media statement on the outcomes of the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) African Partner Countries
The nine African countries partnering on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) projects are making significant progress.
The ministers and senior officials responsible for science and technology in the partner countries concluded the 5th Ministerial Forum Meeting on the SKA/AVN in Cape Town, South Africa, on 16 October.
This annual meeting…
African Space Agency Host – AU Officials visit NASRDA
The African Union Heads of State and Government during their Twenty-Sixth Ordinary Session on 31 January 2016 in Addis Ababa adopted the African Space Policy and Strategy as the first of the concrete steps towards realizing an African Outer Space Programme that was identified as one of the flagship programmes of the AU Agenda 2063 (Decision Assembly/AU/Dec.589 (XXVI)).
Earlier in June, there was…
Why you need to bother investing in the African Space Technology sector
Africa is considered as the last frontier when it comes to almost everything from investments geared towards businesses of any kind, but not anymore. We are currently living in a totally different era. An era where a continent that has grown in the period the internet boom is also rapidly rising in all realms from science, technology, economic, politically and all other aspects that are bringing…
DStv Eutelsat Star Awards Essay & Poster Contest closes today
Submission of entries for the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards Essay and Poster Contest for Young Africans for 2018 officially closes today 26th of October 2018. Entries are therefore invited from young students between the ages 14 and 19 years across Ghana for the 8th edition of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards competition (essay and poster).
Be part of this exciting journey by writing a creative essay…
Interview: Tieho talks about opportunities for space in Africa
Space science and technology in Africa is an emerging and largely untapped sector. Africa continues to push awareness towards harnessing its human resources and leveraging emerging technologies to combat its pressing challenges. The space science and technology sector is not left out in this quest to find sustainable solutions to the challenges prevalent in the region. However, the sector…
Four (4) more satellites from Africa before the end of 2018
By 2030 one in five people will be African. Combine the continent’s soaring population with technology, improvements in infrastructure, health and education, and Africa could be the next century’s economic growth powerhouse. In the past years, African nations have identified the importance space science and technology could have on economic growth and they have been heavily investing in it.…
All Nations University to hold World Space Week Oct. 10
The World Space Week is the biggest Space event in the World. The event celebrates the contributions of Technology to the support of human life.
The event is organized in each County by activists in this field. Annually, since 2014, the All Nations University – Space Systems Technology Laboratory spearheads the event for Ghana.
A unique event is being organized for 2018. This program is THE…
Countdown to NASA Space Apps Challenge across Africa
Space App Challenge; an event of skill and talent to solving space problems, is a 48hours International Hackathon which takes place in numerous/various places around the world. Individuals, students, young professionals from different fields come to display/present innovative ideas and projects, to solving space problems. These fields cut across different IT fields, such as; data visualization,…
Why African Governments need to budget more for Outer Space
The concept of outer space may mean nothing to the common man in the streets of Lagos, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Cairo. Africa's most pressing challenges include poverty, inadequate health care, poor infrastructure and education. In essence, governments in Africa should give priority and commit resources to address these pressing challenges. It may sound Utopian to ask African governments to…
Report on Kenya’s first satellite
Three months ago, Kenya launched its first nanosatellite, thrusting the country to the centre of cutting-edge technology which ushered the country into the hallowed ground of elite innovators in Africa.
The nanosatellite is a 10 cubic centimetre first outer space object registered by Kenya. The gadget consists of two commercial cameras and experimental web audio upload and broadcast, capable of…