South African National Space Agency (SANSA)

Realising the need to steer South Africa from a largely resource-based economy to knowledge based economy, the Department of Science and Technology developed the ten-year innovation plan. This plan identifies five grand challenges of which Space science and technology is one.under SANSA key strategic institutions (ii) promoting better co-ordination of national space activities under SANSA, and (iii) creating a visible single point of contact for national space activities.