Africa-Press – Angola. The National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN) this Monday challenged Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and other national entrepreneurs to create business solutions in the space market, based on the exploration of Angosat-2.
According to the head of the GGPEN Space Education Department, Gilberto Gomes, the global space market offers countless business opportunities, with a safe return, as long as solutions are developed based on satellite images and artificial intelligence algorithms.
According to him, this market is emerging and accessible to all entrepreneurs who have the opportunity to invest in technological applications for management, mines, ecology, land exploration and maritime and river surveillance, thus benefiting widely from Angosat-2.
To help complete the business, the source says, GGPEN has satellite images and a telecommunications satellite mechanism, the so-called “Conect Angola Kit”, where national entrepreneurs can learn about and develop business, using Angosat -two.
To this end, explains the space specialist, those interested in joining the business to the spatial dimension need to master information and communication technologies, for example, a student, with just a computer and Internet, in a period of two years, can develop their first space application and commercialize it.
In this regard, the person responsible reiterated that State bodies already exploit Angosat-2, as is the case with Endiama, in the field of mining, management applications for the Lobito Corridor, State Asset Management, the National Petroleum Agency, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) and monitoring the Angolan coast.
For greater publicity and reach of the space market, in celebration of World Space Week, which runs from the 4th to the 10th of October, under the motto “Space and Entrepreneurship”, GGPEN has drawn up a national program to raise awareness and clarify the earth observation satellite business.
Among the objectives of the event is the widespread use of the Internet across the country, in addition to the creation of opportunities and businesses between national and international start-ups in the space sector, with emphasis on projects linked to earth observation.
On the occasion, startup entrepreneur Guilherme Massala considered GGPEN’s initiative to publicize the Angolan space market to be extremely important, as it opens up new commercial opportunities for creators.
In turn, Sara Queirós, a graduate in Electronic and Telecommunications engineering, says that the event represents a great learning experience for the country’s young people and an inspiration to develop start-ups.
World Space Week, a date established by the United Nations (UN), aims to celebrate the contribution of science and space technology to improving the human condition.
At the seven-day event in Angola, lectures and seminars were promoted, with experts from national and international startups (France and Portugal, Japan, United States of America), as well as from the North American space agencies NASA and the Spanish ESA.
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