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Nuclear

French ready to support South African nuclear programme

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France is supportive of South Africa’s nuclear energy plans, assured French Foreign Ministry secretary-general Pierre Sellal in Pretoria on Thursday afternoon. The European power is a leader in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. “Our...
By: Keith Campbell
03 Feb 12
 
 
Medical Technology

Hospital’s hi-tech medical scanner to be fully functional by midyear

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A R15.6-million positron emission tomography – computed tomography (PET-CT) scanner will be fully operational by mid-2012 at Tygerberg hospital, in the Western Cape, says medical radiation and isotopes company NTP Radioisotopes executive...
 
 
Space

Sumbandila satellite deemed a success, despite premature loss

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The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has reported that the country’s Earth observation microsatellite, Sumbandila, is effectively dead. “We intermittently get contact with the satellite, but we are of the opinion that it has reached...
By: Keith Campbell
03 Feb 12
 
 
SPACE

SA making progress with nanosatellites

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The Stellenbosch University and the Cape Peninsula University of technology are making good progress on two Cubesats that they are developing. Cubesats are very small satellites, also referred to as nanosatellites or nanosats, typically produced...
By: Keith Campbell
02 Feb 12
 
 
AEROSPACE

Laser centre breakthrough may give SA aerostructural firm a global edge

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A breakthrough by researchers at the National Laser Centre (NLC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) promises to make local aeronautics company Aerosud a world leader in niche aerostructural components manufacture within...
By: Keith Campbell
27 Jan 12
 
 
BIORESEARCH

TIA bioresearch facility up for lease

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The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, has put up its rapid diagnostics manufacturing facility, in Umbogintwini, KwaZulu-Natal, for lease. The facility housed the East Coast Rapid...
By: Natasha Odendaal
25 Jan 12
 
 
SCIENCE $ TECHNOLOGY

UCT spin-out and Norwegian firm to develop printed temperature tags

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University of Cape Town (UCT) spin-out firm PST Sensors has partnered with Norwegian memory products provider Thin Film Electronics to develop a printed sensor system to monitor the temperature of perishables, such as food and pharmaceuticals....
 
 
Space

SA satellite mission deemed a success, despite premature loss

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The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has reported that the country’s Earth observation microsatellite, Sumbandila, is effectively dead. “We intermittently get contact with the satellite, but we are of the opinion that it has reached...
By: Keith Campbell
24 Jan 12
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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