GHY6 looking super-amazing today (technical term). First elevation axis move post upgrade and new paint job! UKspace UK Space Agency European Space Agency @nasa #deepspace Cornwall&IoS LEP Spaceport Cornwall

Our next e-seminar features Prof Mark Thompson University of Hertfordshire. The Radio Milky Way - listen all about how radio waves can reveal the hidden side of star formation and stellar evolution. Newton Fund Science and Technology Facilities Council @UniLeedsGlobal Register here: dara-project.org/eseminar-series

More than 100 participants in the AERAP virtual conference "A new era for Africa-EU Science and Innovation Partnerships: Africa, Horizon Europe and Development Cooperation", demonstrates the immense interest and potential - and it all started with radio astronomy !

Not only a potential high class scientific research but also commercially viable facility. google.com/amp/s/www.busi… Kenya Space Agency Joe Mucheru EGH Ministry of Info, Comms & The Digital Economy KE DARA Project NRF/SARAO

Congratulations Bonface @OsoroSatComs... your future is bright.

Another fabulous insight into our work... read this @UniLeedsGlobal article. ** A space science project in Africa is opening up new horizons ** medium.com/university-of-… Newton Fund Science and Technology Facilities Council Physics and Astronomy at Leeds

Dr Bernard Duah Asabere Bernard Duah Asabere, from ASTRON & GSSTI, is our next e-seminar speaker. Hear all about the 'Astronomy at Low Frequencies: Prospects of the LOFAR System'... register here: dara-project.org/eseminar-series Newton Fund Science and Technology Facilities Council @UniLeedsGlobal

It's #InternationalTranslationDay! Together our member countries have more than two dozen official languages, so we're proud to support IAU OAO Astronomy Translation Network, making resources accessible without language barriers! Become a volunteer: loom.ly/omrCO08

Prof Peter Wilkinson UoM Physics & Astronomy, will describe the TTRT equipment & how to take, calibrate & analyse the data it produces. Some results of Milky Way observations made from his garden in the UK will be presented. Newton Fund Science and Technology Facilities Council register here... dara-project.org/eseminar-series

**** e-Seminar alert **** On the 24 November, Prof Anna Scaife Anna Scaife, UoM Physics & Astronomy, will talk about 'AI & Bias in Astronomy'. Registration is now open: dara-project.org/eseminar-series Science and Technology Facilities Council Newton Fund @UniLeedsGlobal

Rescheduled e-Seminar... Prof Peter Wilkinson UoM Physics & Astronomy, will describe the TTRT equipment & how to take, calibrate & analyse the data it produces - results of Milky Way observations made from his garden will be presented. Register here... dara-project.org/eseminar-series

Congratulations to Dr Daliso Banda who has successfully defended his PhD. Daliso becomes the third UK DARA PhD student to successfully compete his studies and will shortly resume his post as lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the University of Zambia. Well done Daliso!

The 4th African Space Generation Workshop will be happening next month in Ghana. Event organiser is our very own Kingsley Ahenkora-Duodu.

This amazing initiative has been set up by DARA Project student Ann Njeri Ng'endo Dr. Njeri to ensure as many Kenyan girls as possible continue their education. Read more about it below and follow the ElimishaMsichana account for updates & activities. elimishamsichana.org/about

Congratulations to Saul Phiri from Zambia - DARA PhD student at UCLan, UK, who has had his first paper published. Paper can be found at doi.org/10.1093/mnras/…. Well done Saul!

It is with great sadness that today we learnt that Prof Habatwa Mweene has succumbed to COVID. Habatwa was an excellent lead for the DARA project in Zambia. He brought his good humour to all the DARA annual meetings and he will be greatly missed by the DARA family.

Registration for the “Forum on Astronomy in Africa” event taking place in October is now OPEN. To register please use the following link: astronomy2024.org

Online training of future scientists in Madagascar and Mozambique, an initiative of DARA Project and European Commission JIVE #EC_JUMPINGJIVE, my lecture on #VLBI networks #EU_RIs Global VLBI Alliance

2022 #Astro4dev Call for Proposals is Open. Projects should use #astronomy as a tool to address one or more challenges related to #sustainabledevelopment. In view of Int. Yr. Basic Sciences for Sust. Development we also invite projects that use any field of #basicsciences Deadline: May 31 astro4dev.org/cfp/

See this opportunity at the BIUST-MPG African Astronomy School. More details at www2.mpia.de/bmaas2023/