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MATJIESFONTEIN, South Africa Nov 8 (Reuters) - A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa's semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA ...
Matjiesfontein will join future LEGS facilities at Nasa’s White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and a still-to-be-determined location in Australia.
Tucked away behind historic Lord Milner Hotel is the Matjiesfontein Transport Museum, a must-see for the curious. Off the beaten track in Matjiesfontein Home Page ...
The widening of the N1 at Matjiesfontein is evidence of space-age change coming to the old Victorian village. Life on ‘the other side of the tracks’ may never be the same again. Meanwhile, the ...
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The development of the South African National Space Agency’s (Sansa’s) new Matjiesfontein ground station, in the Western Cape, is confidently progressing but it might be moving too fast for ...
Matjiesfontein is a national heritage site, and one guide John Tienasen is proud of. “Tourists come from all over the world,” he says. “Here you can see no evil, ...
Matjiesfontein in the central Karoo region of the Western Cape will host the new Lunar Exploration Ground Sites (LEGS) antenna to help ensure near-continuous connectivity between astronauts on NASA’s ...
The Matjiesfontein ground station will alleviate increased demand for NASA’s Deep Space Network, allowing Artemis to meet its goals and expand our scientific knowledge,” said director of the ...
Matjiesfontein was a famous outpost of the British Empire, a shelter for travelers on the Cape-to-Cairo road, and an important stronghold in the Second Anglo-Boer War, so check underfoot for old ...