Tonight, Elon Musk’s rocket company is due to launch South African ship-monitor satellites

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The 'rideshare' Transporter-3 mission is due to launch SA's first constellation of three satellites, MDASat-1, to monitor ship traffic directly.

SpaceX, the company created by SA-born Elon Musk, is due to launch three South African satellites this evening. nanosat constellation will give South Africa the infrastructure to directly monitor shipping traffic in its territorial waters.

A little over an hour after launch, it is due to release the three components of the MDASat-1 constellation, made by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology .At present, South Africa depends on third-party foreign providers for AIS data. Under , the government's efforts to better economically exploit the oceans, changing that became a priority.

In 2013 CPUT produced the ZACube-1, and in 2018 ZACube-2. MDASat-1 is the first South African mini-constellation.

 

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