Angola eyes new satellite as African space race accelerates - SpaceNews.com

“Angola is among the African countries that recently announced a program to develop their space program and are expected to launch a satellite in the coming years,” Richard Damoah, an assistant research scientist who works at the Sciences and Exploration Directorate of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told SpaceNews. “To coordinate space activities on the continent, the African Union member states have decided to establish the African Space Agency, and, as a first step, they adopted the African Space Policy and Strategy during their meeting in [Ethiopia’s capital] Addis Ababa in early 2016. They are currently in the process of deciding on where to establish the headquarters of the agency.”