Day: May 28, 2025

South Africa has announced a new partnership with the United Arab Emirates UAE to establish a dedicated South African satellite, further enhancing the country’s space technology capabilities. Speaking on the sidelines of the SAMENA Leaders’ Summit 2025 in Dubai, Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Transformation, Mondli Gungubele, confirmed the partnership, which builds on the …

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On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a rhesus monkey from Kansas, and her crewmate Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey from Peru. They were tucked inside tight capsules, covered in various sensors and electrodes and …

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GeoVille, the lead implementing organisation of the European Space Agency’s flagship DUNIA programme, has unveiled a major enhancement to the platform aimed at transforming access to and utilisation of Earth Observation EO data across Africa. The latest upgrade introduces continent wide Sentinel 2 streaming and browser based index calculation tools, reflecting Dunia’s vision of promoting …

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In a groundbreaking international collaboration, astronomers from China’s Tsinghua University, along with scientists from Italy, Australia, Germany, and other nations, have used two of the world’s most advanced radio telescopes, China’s Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope FAST and South Africa’s MeerKAT array, to conduct unprecedented observations of globular clusters, some of the Milky …

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