{"id":223778,"date":"2026-02-14T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-joins-space-elite-with-chinese-funded-satellite-data-receiving-station-in-windhoek\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:34:22","slug":"namibia-joins-space-elite-with-chinese-funded-satellite-data-receiving-station-in-windhoek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-joins-space-elite-with-chinese-funded-satellite-data-receiving-station-in-windhoek\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Joins Space Elite With Chinese-Funded Satellite Data-Receiving Station in Windhoek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Namibia has received a China-aided satellite ground data-receiving station at the Telecom earth station in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">The handover took place on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, represented by prime minister Elijah Ngurare at the handover, said the facility is a significant advancement in science, technology and innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;The official handover of the satellite represents a concrete step towards realising our national development objectives and our long-term industrialisation agenda,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130392.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia has received a China-aided satellite ground data-receiving station at the Telecom earth station in Windhoek. The handover took place on Thursday. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, represented by prime minister Elijah Ngurare at the handover, said the facility is a significant advancement in science, technology and innovation. &#8220;The official handover of the satellite represents a concrete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,19569,53650,6842,5046,4706,724,257,5663,254,5215,10613,1582],"class_list":["post-223778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinesefunded","tag-datareceiving","tag-elite","tag-joins","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-satellite","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-station","tag-windhoek"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}