Avanti Communications Partners with the GPE To Advance Girls’ Education
Avanti Communications has partnered with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) on The Girls’ Education Awareness Program (GEAP). This partnership will address barriers to girl's education. The partnership will consequently address this through targeted, context-specific awareness and information campaigns. Thus, the programme aims to enhance and add unique value to girls' education.…
Egypt Set to Launch the MisrSat-2 Satellite in December 2022
Egypt’s experimental Earth observation satellite, MisrSat-2, is scheduled to be launched in December 2022, just three months behind schedule despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), Mohammed ElKoosy, the first phase of the initial designs has been completed, and the engineering model is currently being manufactured with Chinese support. MisrSat-2…
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African Satellite Development Initiative Begins Satellite Training in Egypt.
In 2019, the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) invited Heads of Agencies from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and Sudan to launch a pan-African satellite project dubbed the African Development Satellite Initiative (AfDev-Sat). The project was initiated in the light of the integration of African countries in the field of space – with Egypt hosting the African Space Agency having won the bid in…
About USD 4.5 billion Spent on Satellite Projects in Africa
Twenty-three years after the NileSat 101 went into orbit, Egypt and 12 other African States have launched a total of 44 satellites. Together, African countries have spent USD 4,462,463,820 on these satellite projects. As of June 2021, 21 out of 54 African states have either created a space programme or are in the process of establishing a national space policy with the recent addition of Namibia…
Call for Nomination: African Space Industry Top 10 Under-30 – Class Of 2021
Africa’s premier space-focused consulting and media firm, Space in Africa (SiA), invites nominations from the public for the 2021 class of the prestigious African Space Industry Top 10 Under-30 award.
Launched in 2019 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon mission, the industry award recognizes outstanding young Africans breaking the limits of the Sky and…
Jerusalem Start-up, Zzapp, is Using AI to Eliminate Malaria in Africa
Zzapp, a Jerusalem-based company, believes that malaria elimination is possible and is committed to helping to achieve it. Many developed nations have successfully eliminated malaria by thoroughly treating the stagnant water bodies that are potential malaria mosquito breeding sites. In Africa, however, the challenge is more complicated due to conditions spanning from climate to infrastructure.…
EgSA, AfSA Headquarters, and the African Development Satellite Space Mission
The Europe-Africa Space Earth Observation High-Level Forum took place on Thursday and Friday, 10th and 11th of June 2021. It was organised in the framework of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, with the support of the European Commission. The Forum aims to foster European-African cooperation on…
The African NewSpace Requirements
The NewSpace is birthed by the arrival of the private sector in space exploration. We must take a closer look at how these NewSpace companies will help bring about the rapid development of African Space activities through targeted investments in the ground infrastructures, including the ground stations and receiving stations. African countries must therefore position themselves in this growing…
Eutelsat Partners Facebook Connectivity to Extend WiFi coverage in Africa
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) is expanding its use of the Express Wi-Fi platform in partnership with Facebook to provide broadband services via satellite across several regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. With Express Wi-Fi, Eutelsat aims to connect thousands of people in rural and underserved communities spanning the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire,…