https://spacewatch.global/tag/operation-phakisa/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/operation-phakisa/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/03/south-africa-and-france-sign-agreement-to-jumpstart-future-cooperation/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:00:58 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13028 In the presence of France’s Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu, Jean-Pascal Le Franc, Centre national d'etudes spatiales (CNES) Director of Planning, International Relations, and Quality, and Valanathan Munsami, CEO of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), signed an agreement outlining future space cooperation between France and South Africa on 28 February 2019 in Pretoria.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/09/south-africa-selects-macdonald-dettwiler-associates-radarsat-2-maritime-surveillance-programme/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 05:00:46 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10361 The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has selected Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, to provide satellite surveillance data from RADARSAT-2 for maritime domain awareness.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/south-africas-zacube-2-cubesat-built-french-assistance-shipped-india-launch/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:00:55 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8380 South Africa's Minister for Science and Technology, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, was joined by France's ambassador to South Africa, Christophe Farnaud, at a ceremony held on 17 April 2018 at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) for the send-off the ZACUBE-2 Cubesat to India from where it will be launched later in 2018.]]>