Space agency highlights constraints and opportunities for local space sector

The development of South Africa's space sector and, within that, the space industry, has been hampered by financial constraints. So highlighted South African National Space Agency (Sansa) CEO Dr Val Munsami in his address to the Sansa Space for National Development Conference on Monday. "We've had limited investments in space, which have not been enough to drive it forward," he affirmed. "We thought that we had some capabilities in the country to capture a share of the global market in small and micro-satellites. This has not happened as we hoped."