Mustapha Iderawumi

There is a provocation embedded in the way Paul Lasserre talks about satellites, and it is entirely deliberate.

, Rwanda's first registered commercial satellite, is now in its final stages of preparation, with a launch window set for the second half of 2027. Jakub Janík, TRL Space's Foreign Affairs Manager, was in Libreville for the NewSpace Africa Conference 2026, attending the event for the first time after four years of keeping its head down and building.

In Africa, when someone utters the word ‘space', we very often think of Earth Observation, Satellite Communications, and sometimes even lunar exploration.

Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda are each building out satellite ground infrastructure independently and at different stages of understanding what that…

Eutelsat has announced a new commitment to extend broadband satellite connectivity to an additional 2 million people across Sub-Saharan Africa by

Every dry season, wildfires burn through tens of thousands of hectares across Ghana's northern and middle belt regions.

How GGPEN is building one of Africa's most integrated space ecosystems, and why ANGOTIC 2026 is its biggest stage yet.

In 2020, when Arad Gharagozli founded Galaxia in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the pitch needed no deck: intelligent, software-defined satellites built for

Airtel Uganda has kicked off trials of Starlink's Direct-to-Cell satellite technology , positioning the Ugandan subsidiary at the front of what has

NMD is a Cameroon-based commercial satellite company operating alongside its non-profit counterpart, the Nanosatellite Missions Design Association (NMD Association). Together, they form the operational backbone of Mission 237, Africa's first satellite constellation dedicated entirely to the practical training of engineers in real-world mission operations. The recognition that this model is not just promising but already working came at the NewSpace Africa Conference 2026 in Libreville, where NMD won the NSAC 2026 Startup Pitch Competition, an endorsement from a room full of people who know this industry best.