SANSA is the South African National Space Agency, located in Hermanus for its magnetically clean environment. It was established in 2010 but South Africa has been involved in space research for decades. Siyabulela Xusa is a South African scientist, engineer and entrepreneur who founded an energy investment company. He studied at Harvard and had early interests in science projects. ZACube-2 is South Africa's second nanosatellite, designed by Cape Peninsula University of Technology to test ship tracking technology. Elon Musk is a business magnate born in South Africa who founded SpaceX and envisions colonizing Mars to preserve humanity. SUMBANDILA was South Africa's first microsatellite launched in 2008 to research affordable space