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Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Carla Sharpe”

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This week’s Space Café WebTalk took place on 14 April 2020, featuring Carla Sharpe, Business Manager at SKA South Africa, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.

Carla talked about her own career trajectory, and she also discussed the variety of space projects in Africa and her Foundation for Space Development, Women in Aerospace Africa and  Africa2Moon, a low cost solution for performing radio astronomy on the far side of the Moon.

Following her remarks, the online audience had the opportunity to ask questions of Carla.  

The Space Café WebTalks series is SpaceWatch.Global’s new webinar platform featuring global space experts.

You can view Carlas slides at 200414_SpaceCafeWT_CarlaSharpe

The complete video can be seen here:

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