AIA’s AstroPause: Côte d’Ivoire and the space challenge

Report on the first AstroPause, held on 18 May 2023 at UFHB’s LASMES laboratory, in front of some fifty participants: academics, professionals, students and pupils.

• Dr Marc Harris Yao presented AIA.
• Dr Pancrace Aka gave a talk on the Ivorian space agency: stakes and challenges.
• Dr Jean-Baptiste Ackah spoke about satellite communication and the reconquest of space.

The context: a few weeks earlier, at the NewSpace Africa conference in Abidjan, the government had announced a national space agency and a first nanosatellite, Yam-Sat CI 01.