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NASA invests in a Deep Space Ground Station in South Africa

The Western Cape Government (WCG) welcomes the official commencement of the impressive collaboration between the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and the USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to invest in a Deep Space Ground Station, in Matjiesfontein, right here in the Western Cape. The collaboration seeks to assist NASA in achieving the objectives of the Artemis programme, […]

today9 November 2022

Local

SA signs ground breaking exploration programme with NASA

LOCAL A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the Moon and beyond, space agency officials said on Tuesday at a ground-breaking ceremony in the tiny village of Matjiesfontein. Through its Artemis programme, which aims to land the first woman or person of colour on the Moon by 2025, the U.S. space agency […]

today8 November 2022

International News

Largest asteroid of 2021 to make closest approach to Earth

The largest asteroid to sweep past Earth this year will make its closest approach on Sunday. But scientists have told people not to panic as it poses no threat to the planet. The giant space rock that researchers call 2001 FO32 has a diameter of several hundred metres and will approach Earth at a distance of about two million kilometres (1.2 million miles), US space agency NASA said. That distance […]

today20 March 2021

International News

SpaceX capsule with four astronauts docks at space station

The space station, an orbital laboratory about 400 kilometres (250 miles) above the Earth, will be their home for the next six months when they will be replaced by another group of astronauts on a Crew Dragon capsule. The rotation will continue until Boeing joins the programme with its own spacecraft late next year. The Resilience crew includes Crew Dragon commander Mike Hopkins and two fellow NASA astronauts: Mission pilot […]

today17 November 2020

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