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Cape Town – Nasa and the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) renewed their partnership in lunar exploration with the groundbreaking of a new communications facility in Matjiesfontein that will help ...
Tucked away behind historic Lord Milner Hotel is the Matjiesfontein Transport Museum, a must-see for the curious. David Rawdon, the laird of this Victorian village, built up the collection over ...
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 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 ...
The small town of Matjiesfontein will serve as the perfect location for a Lunar Exploration Ground Site. These sites are used by NASA for communications as far as two million kilometres away.
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 ...
Shovel ready Matjiesfontein in the central Karoo region of the Western Cape will host a new Lunar Exploration Ground Sites antenna. (Courtesy: Munyaradzi Makoni) Officials gathered on 8 November to ...
Cape Town, with its pristine beaches, soaring mountains, renowned restaurant scene, and comfortable climate, is fast becoming one of the world’s top vacation spots—and a wonderfully affordable ...
In Photos: Stunning views of the rare Pi Day "Blood Moon" Lunar Eclipse ...
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