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The New Year is just around the corner and it’s the perfect time to reflect on all of the milestones we achieved in 2020. Dragonfly Aerospace Emerges from Space Advisory Company Former employees of SCS subsidiary, Space Advisory Company (SAC), launched a new venture – Dragonfly Aerospace – which focuses on creating imagers and microsatellites […]

Earth observation technologies are an effective tool for collecting agricultural data and tracking environmental changes. They enable monitoring selected zones to accurately detect destructive effects of human impact. Examples of remote sensing applications include monitoring deforestation, glacier conditions, ocean depth measurement, crop type classification, soil and yield conditions and more. Multispectral imagers are key elements […]

“International consortium adds hyperspectral imaging and communication payloads to NanoAvionics’ rideshare mission named D-2/AtlaCom-1 Acquired data during the in-orbit demonstration of the technology will be made available to interested parties around the world Columbia (IL), USA, October 23, 2020 – NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has revealed the remaining three payloads […]

EOS Data Analytics has announced the conclusion of an agreement with Dragonfly Aerospace for the delivery of two HR-250 high-performance multispectral imagers. A satellite equipped with the Dragonfly imagers will be launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) early in 2022. The side-by-side payloads will allow for the creation of wide swath images in 7 spectral […]

In this exclusive interview with Space in Africa, Bryan Dean, the CEO of Dragonfly Aerospace, discusses the company’s emergence from SAC, rebranding from Southern Space, business goals, and market prospects in South Africa and the international satellite market. I understand that you started as Southern Space, and later you renamed the company to Dragonfly Aerospace. […]

The Configuration Manager (CM) maintains and provides technical and administrative direction to the development and implementation of the procedures, functions, services, tools, processes, and resources required to successfully develop and support a complex engineering configuration management system. During system development, the CM allows program management to track requirements throughout the life-cycle through acceptance and operations […]

2019 was a tough year for the South African space industry. Two of the leading space companies – Denel Spaceteq and Space Advisory Company (subsidiary of Space Commercial Services) – were both in financial trouble. Over the course of the year some employees of both companies left the space industry and at the end of […]

Ex-SCS employees find international investors and revitalise the South African space dream with a new company focused on creating microsatellites for large imaging constellations. CAPE TOWN, South Africa, August 20, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Dragonfly Aerospace picks up the flag in the latest chapter in the proud history of South African space engineering and space missions. […]