Africa’s space science industry shoots for the stars

📆 06-06-22 17:42:00
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By 2019 there were more than 90 academic institutions in Africa offering space science qualifications, 53 national space-related agencies, and 229 private space industry outfits.

Twenty years after Mark Shuttleworth made history as the first ‘afronaut’, Africa has a burgeoning space science industry.

Sure, the SA Radio Astronomy Observatory did help enable communications for Nasa’s 1969 moon landing — but it would take another 30-odd years before the first real afronaut, local IT billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, blasted into low earth orbit...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.

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