Total Projects
279
Applied space projects on record
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Applied space projects across Africa: Earth observation, astronomy, weather and climate, navigation, satellite communications and capacity building, with their funders, timelines and countries of implementation.
Applied space projects on record
Currently running
Across the 200 projects with a disclosed amount
Earth Observation, Astronomy
Number of projects in each application segment
Where the projects on record stand today
| Value | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Completed | 211 projects | 75.6% |
| Active | 65 projects | 23.3% |
| Closed | 2 projects | 0.7% |
| Not specified | 1 project | 0.4% |
Project funders, timelines and countries of implementation
| S/No | Website | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Square Kilometre Array (SKA) | Astronomy | Telescope | Republic of South Africa and National Research Foundation (NRF) | $314,173,228 | 2011 | 2030 | Active | South Africa and Australia | Visit Site |
| 02 | The Egyptian Large Optical Telescope (ELOT) | Astronomy | Telescope | Egypt and International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU OAD) | $56,500,000 | 2018 | 2028 | Active | Egypt | Visit Site |
| 03 | The African Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network (AVN) | Astronomy | Telescope | International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU OAD) | — | 2012 | 2017 | Completed | Kenya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Ghana | Visit Site |
| 04 | The African Millimetre Telescope | Astronomy | Telescope | Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Namibia (26%) Dutch Research School for Astronomy and donations (€450K) Telescope donated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) | $23,000,000 | 2016 | 2025 | Active | Namibia | Visit Site |
| 05 | The Hirax Telescope | Astronomy | Telescope | National Research Foundation | $1,340,317 | 2018 | 2022 | Completed | South Africa | Visit Site |
| 06 | Satellite And Meteorological Information For Disaster Resilience In Africa (Sawidra) | Earth Observation | Disaster Resilience | African Development Bank | $4,265,546 | 2013 | 2019 | Completed | Sub-Saharan Africa | Visit Site |
| 07 | Drought Management in Angola | Earth Observation | Disaster Resilience | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | $550,000 | 2022 | 2025 | Active | Angola | Visit Site |
| 08 | Eastern Africa Forest Observatory (OFESA) | Earth Observation | Forest Observatory | European Union | $531,000 | 2020 | 2023 | Completed | Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda | Visit Site |
| 09 | MIDST (Monitoring for Information and Decisions using Space Technology) | Earth Observation | Disaster Resilience | Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and Google Earth Engine (GEE) | $4,000,000 | 2020 | 2022 | Completed | Kenya | Visit Site |
| 10 | Multidimensional Poverty Data for Africa | Earth Observation | Poverty Eradication | Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and Google Earth Engine (GEE) | $4,000,000 | 2020 | 2020 | Completed | African countries | Visit Site |