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The African Space Agency (AfSA) is a continental [1] space organisation established by the African Union (AU) to promote cooperation between the space policies of the AU's member states. The AU adopted the African Space Policy and Strategy in 2016 and agreed upon the statute underlying AfSA in 2018.
As of 2024, nearly 80 different government space agencies are in existence, including more than 70 national space agencies and several international agencies. Initial competencies demonstrated include the funding and nomination of candidates to serve as astronauts, cosmonauts, or taikonauts with the countries/organizations executing human spaceflight solutions.
Nkoloso was born in 1919, in the northern part of Northern Rhodesia. [2] Some sources refer to him as "Edward Makuka Nkoloso". [3]He was drafted into the Northern Rhodesia Regiment in World War II, ultimately serving as a sergeant in the signal corp. [2] After the war, he became a translator for the Northern Rhodesian government.
The history of space in Africa is the history of space activity by or sent from Africa.. Africa has had since 1947 launch sites, with the first independent space programs having been set up early into the Space Age, and African countries participating within the United Nations in developing international space law.
Between 2004 and 2006, while at the Canadian Space Agency, Ouattara served as an advisor to the president of the Canadian Space Agency. He oversaw earth observation, navigation and positioning, robotics, and space sciences, with a regional focus on Africa, Central and South America, and the United Nations.
Hartebeesthoek earth station. SANSA was formed after an act of parliament was passed by acting President Kgalema Motlanthe in 2009. The agency was formed with the intent of consolidating space-related research, projects and research in South Africa and to assume the role as a regional centre for space research in Africa.
The EgSA headquarters are housed in the Egyptian Space City, which also houses the African Space Agency (AfSA) headquarters, after Egypt won a bid to the African Union for its hosting in 2019. [4] [report 1] [5] [6] The EgSA operates under the scope of the Egyptian Government and sees many of its executive decisions made at a presidential level.
The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) is mandated to promote, coordinate and regulate space related activities in the country. It was established in 2017 as the successor to the National Space Secretariate (NSS).