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Space Activities across Africa

GEOSON Conference 2018

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20th International Conference on Collaborative Mapping and GIS

South African High School Student Satellite Launch

1st GMES and Africa Forum

8th National Conference of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria

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GEOSON Conference 2018
All day
2018.11.11-2018.11.15
https://africanews.space/event/geoson-conference-2018/
The Geoinformation Society of Nigeria which is incorporated for the development, advancement and applications of Geoinformation in Nigeria is holding one of their biggest conference in Abuja from 11th-15th of November, 2018 with the theme; Geospatial technologies for national development.

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Applied Geoinformatics for Soiety and Environment conference
All day
2018.11.12-2018.11.16
https://africanews.space/event/applied-geoinformatics-for-soiety-and-environment-conference/
The applied Geoinformatics society and environment 2018 conference will take place November 12th-16th, 2018 at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), Windhoek, Namibia. The re will be a pre-conference workshop about OGC Web services and Interoperability Standards on 8th-9th November, 2018.

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20th International Conference on Collaborative Mapping and GIS
All day
2018.11.15-2018.11.16
https://africanews.space/event/20th-international-conference-on-collaborative-mapping-and-gis/
The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations.

South African High School Student Satellite Launch
All day
2018.11.15
https://africanews.space/event/south-african-high-school-student-satellite-launch/
XinaBox (pronounced: X in a Box) is the tech being used by high school students to collect data in space!
Over one hundred schools have participated in this ground-breaking space journey to collect data, aptly called the ThinSat® Programme.
Launch takes place on the 15^th November 2018, with the Cygnus NG-10 mission from Wallops Island in Virginia, USA. Fifty-five student ThinSats will be deployed at an altitude of roughly 250km and will enter what is known as Extreme Low Earth Orbit (ELEO).

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1st GMES and Africa Forum
All day
2018.11.19-2018.11.23
https://africanews.space/event/1st-gmes-and-africa-forum/
No additional detail for this event.

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8th National Conference of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria
All day
2018.11.21-2018.11.24
https://africanews.space/event/8th-national-conference-of-the-astronomical-society-of-nigeria/
The Astronomical Society of Nigeria (ASN) is an umbrella body of professional Nigerians who are actively involved in teaching and research in astronomy, space science and other related disciplines in universities, other tertiary institutions and research centres in Nigeria. A key objective of ASN is to encourage and promote effective astronomy and space science education and research in Nigeria through public mobilization and enlightenment. The society also seeks to explore possible collaborations with governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies aimed at providing world-class research and education facilities in Nigeria.

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African Air Expo
All day
2018.11.27-2018.11.29
https://africanews.space/event/african-air-expo/
African Air Expo is aiming to attract a mix of General, Business and Commercial Aviation exhibitors who will come together on a static area of 50 000 sqm