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Keeping heart surgeons online in the Tankwa Karoo

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

Paratus South Africa is backing the Revived Pulse Foundation for a third consecutive year as a principal event partner for Le Tour de Spirit of the Great Heart, the foundation’s annual charity cycle tour, which starts on Thursday. Paratus is providing Eutelsat OneWeb low-Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity for the six-day, 640km ride, which runs from…

The hole in the law above the Karoo

eriinfo.com1 month ago013 mins

The legal shield around South Africa’s most valuable scientific instrument does not reach the objects most likely to interfere with it. The Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area (KCAAA), established under the country’s Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act, protects MeerKAT and the Square Kilometre Array-Mid (SKA-Mid) telescope now under construction from ground-based interference. Satellites sit outside it….