02/10/2014
Spaceteq takes top honors at IAC 2014. Congratulations to Lumka Msibi who has won the 1st prize in the IAF Poster Competition with her poster and Technical Paper titled “53rd South African National Antarctic Expedition (SANAE) and Denel Spaceteq Schools Outreach Program ”, in the Category of Space Education and Outreach Symposium at the 65th International Astronautics Conference in Toronto Canada. Within this category, there were 9 finalists that were selected out of 500 submissions. Her poster, which was accompanied by a Technical Paper, was designed out of the Technical Work she had done during the visit to Antarctica – upgrade of the South African Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (Super DARN) which is a South African Installation in the Antarctica used to monitor the dynamic Space Weather, used to as an early warning system for Satellites, when the Space Weather become adverse (Solar Activity increases to dangerous levels for Satellites). http://ow.ly/i/75acI http://ow.ly/i/75agr