South Africa wants a new space regulator

TechCentralFanie van Rooyen · 2 November 2026 at 10:39

A proposed new South African space law would make it an offence to build a satellite without a licence from a new regulator, bringing far more of the local space industry into a licensing regime than the 1993 law it would replace. The draft South African Space Industry Regulatory Bill, published by…
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