by AISI | Mar 28, 2017 | News
An Airbus A380 aircraft is seen in the paint shop at the Airbus facility in Finkenwerder near Hamburg. South African researchers are developing the world’s largest machine for producing aircraft parts. Image: REUTERS South African researchers developing the...
by AISI | Dec 1, 2016 | Earned Media, News
7 November 2016: A nanosatellite designed and built in South Africa will be launched early next year from the International Space Station as part of a European Commission research project. Managed by SCS Aerospace Group, South Africa’s biggest private satellite...
by AISI | Sep 23, 2016 | News
Hosting the Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) for the tenth year, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says the programme will focus on technology-based supplier development for the aerospace industry this year. The initiative has been...
by AISI | Jul 11, 2016 | News
The research cooperation framework agreement between the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS), signed in August last year, will benefit a wide swathe of the South African defence and aerospace research and...
by AISI | Jul 11, 2016 | Earned Media, News
The Aerospace Industry Support Initiative (AISI) – managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) – has renewed its focus on its Supplier Development Programme (SDP),...
by AISI | May 26, 2016 | News
South Africa is one of 70 countries that has its own space agency. Here are a few quick facts about our role in space research. South Africa’s Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory in Gauteng has supported several space missions, including Apollo 15 in 1972....