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To kick off Season 2 of Lagos to Mombasa, Gyude reflects on the intricacies of climate change and development in Africa and explores how space-based technologies can help. Temidayo Oniosun of Space in Africa and Rose Croshier from CGD join Gyude to discuss the intersections of space technology with extreme weather events, agriculture and food security, and regional capacity and preparedness.

New space rules will need to come fast to support commercial space stations and moon settlements, and guard against swiftly-growing space debris.

"China is a major space player and will be a major space player. They are not participating in the global dialogue, and in global information sharing on SSA. That's unsustainable," said Richard DalBello, head of the Commerce Department's Office of Space Commerce.

The ORBITS Act is aimed at improving national security, communications reliability, and protecting astronauts and satellites.

The ongoing White House-level review of what is often called "mission authorization and supervision" responsibilities has not been simple, according to several government officials involved, with the key agencies with current legal say over space regulations jockeying for a piece of the regulatory pie.

Non-profit agency believes creative and innovative skills development will improve employment chances and entrepreneurship among the youth

The programme, introduced by ORT SA and STET in 2022 in Jabulani, Soweto, aims to develop young entrepreneurs through makerism and coding and robotics skills provided by ORT SA. The Young Entrepreneurship Programme enables access to technologies such as 3D modeling and printing and laser cutting which is excellent for formulating ideas for business plans.

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The Office of Space Commerce (OSC) issued a request for information on Friday for input on its space traffic management system for the space industry. 

Industry representatives meeting with Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves on Tuesday "stressed the need for [Commerce] to work quickly to field the new capabilities — ideally by buying and redistributing existing commercial products — in order to maintain leadership in the face of competing SSA offerings from the EU and China," a Commerce official told Breaking Defense today.