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The University of Cape Town is seeking an experienced space professional to provide research and academic leadership to the University’s Space Studies programme. The full text of the advert can be found here. Applications close 29 November 2019.
A new book was recently published by Dr Annette Froehlich (Resident Fellow at European Space Policy Institute/German Aerospace Center, and Honorary member of SpaceLab, UCT) and André Siebrits (Research Assistant, European Space Policy Institute, Ph.D. candidate in the UCT Political Studies department, and Space and Society 2017 alumni).
André Siebrits also presented a lecture on this book and topic during the 2019 Space and Society course at the SpaceLab, which was well received by students who were interested in learning more about the African space landscape and market. More information on the book can be found here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-12173-0
A new cohort of South African students from a variety of backgrounds has just completed the intensive Space and Society lecture week.
SpaceLab’s Space and Society course forms part of the core curriculum of its MPhil specialising in Space Studies. For more information, please see http://www.spacelab.uct.ac.za/courses
SpaceLab MPhil student Barbara Ojur was awarded a prize for her paper on a software defined radio ground station at the 12th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, hosted by the International Academy of Astronautics and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin, Germany, from 6-10 May 2019.