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Work begins on ground station in South Africa to support NASA’s lunar programme

19 Nov 2022
A crowd of officials at the site of the new facility
Shovel ready Matjiesfontein in the central Karoo region of the Western Cape will host a new Lunar Exploration Ground Sites antenna. (Courtesy: Munyaradzi Makoni)
Officials gathered on 8 November to break ground on a new facility in South Africa that will support

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Munyaradzi Makoni is a science journalist based in South Africa
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