South African aerospace group exports own satellite

A South African aerospace group Space Commercial Service Holdings just launched its first self-developed export product at the 65th International Astronautical Congress, the world’s most comprehensive annual space conference held in Toronto, Canada, this past week. The product called Phoenix-20 HS is a micro-satellite that uses an advanced remote sensing system based on hyperspectral imaging which breaks up images in different spectral bands and enables it to unveil more details of the earth’s ...