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Is Tunisia the next space giant from Africa?
The African Space Industry is progressing significantly with more investments, more opportunities and more players joining the race - the latest of which is...
German Research Center is testing space robotics technologies in Moroccan Sahara
According to a press release by the Robotics Innovation Center in Bremen, Germany, the center started a four-week field test campaign in November 14 through December...
Algeria to begin work on its 2nd communications satellite
ASAL, the Algerian space agency, is already thinking about a second communications satellite (Alcomsat-2) to replace the first (Alcomsat-1) at the end of its...
Angola is solving its rural health issue with TeleMedicine
In November, Huambo entered the history of telemedicine in Angola, as the first region in the country to have 10 interconnected municipalities, that is,...
Testing High-Throughput Satellites: From Prototyping to In-Orbit Verification
To deliver the next generation of satellite applications, operators are exploiting the on-board processing advantages of digital, wideband high-throughput payloads at higher frequencies. By...
Algeria/Japan collaboration on satellite development produces Nanosatellite
On October 29, 2018 at 05:08 am Algerian time, Japanese nano-satellite Ten-Koh was successfully launched on the H2A-F40 launcher of the Japan Aerospace Exploration...
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Jessie Ndaba is setting the pace for Aerospace Engineers in Africa
At a time when there is huge advocacy for NewSpace Africa, a bid to promote the commercial space ecosystem in Africa, Jessie Ndaba is...
Meet Richard Komlan Folly, the Founder of African Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (AGIA)...
Richard Komlan Folly is a Data Scientist focused on Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS). He founded the African Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (AGIA) an...
Prof. Islam Abou El-Magd gives deep insight into the African Space...
Prof. Islam Abou El-Magd acted as the Chairman of the 7th African Leadership Conference that held in Abuja, Nigeria. With 30 years experience in space...
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Is Tunisia the next space giant from Africa?
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#NewSpaceAfrica Column – Astrofica
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German Research Center is testing space robotics technologies in Moroccan Sahara
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