Small Karoo village frozen in time helping return astronauts to the Moon
A small Victorian-era town in South Africa has already helped with NASA’s moon missions and is expected to be critical in future missions.
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Alaya Kaplen | Benjamin Honigwachs | Dean Weich | Ethan Schoombee | International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC) | Science
Team South Africa wins at NASA space engineering competition
South African high school learners selected to participate in the International Space Settlement Design Competition had prominent roles in the winning team, with one receiving individual recognition.
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International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC) | NASA’s Kennedy Space Center | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) | Science | South African Space Design Competition (ZASDC) | Space Science and Engineering Foundation (SSEF)
A 17-year-old from Mitchells Plain who has never flown in an aeroplane will represent South Africa at a NASA space design competition
Zayaan Abdurahman is one of a handful of high school students from South Africa who will compete in the International Space Settlement Design Competition.
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Celebrex | Celecoxib | continous-flow | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research | CSIR | Science
South African research facility which revolutionised a pain medication using a unique high tech process
The CSIR is producing the active ingredient of an expensive pain medication at its new FuturePharma facility in Pretoria, the first in Africa.
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elon musk | mars | Mars missions | Moon missions | NASA | Science
New Starship completes first successful mission
SpaceX’s upgraded Starship successfully deployed mock satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, though its booster spun out of control and broke apart over the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Small South African village which caught Elon Musk’s attention
Arniston, a quiet village in the Western Cape which is a lesser-known tourist destination, is in close proximity to a weapons and rocket testing range that piqued Elon Musk’s interest in 2025.
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South African icebreaker delayed in delivering critical supplies to scientists on remote island
Delays caused by the war in Iran have prevented the SA Agulhas II from leaving Cape Town harbour on schedule to deliver supplies to an important scientific outpost.
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One area where South Africa can compete with the United States and China on AI
The Wits MIND Institute brings together top scientists and researchers in South Africa to find ways to compete with the world’s AI leaders.
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Professor in South Africa who used aerial lasers to unearth an ancient lost Tswana capital
Prof. Karim Sadr used plane mounted lasers to scan the Suikerbosrand hills and revealed the full extent of a once-lost Tswana capital city: Kweneng.
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Amazon.com | eastern cape | Science | Spekboom | world bank
World Bank and Amazon.com partner in a unique new project in South Africa
The World Bank has teamed up with Amazon.com on a bond whose proceeds will go toward rehabilitating ecosystems in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province.