{"id":146611,"date":"2026-02-23T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146611"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:00:14","slug":"how-china-is-building-the-hi-tech-backbone-of-africas-space-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146611","title":{"rendered":"How China is building the hi-tech backbone of Africa\u2019s space ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFrom a satellite ground station in Namibia to an Egyptian laboratory in orbit, China has been building the hi-tech backbone of Africa\u2019s space ambitions.<br \/>\nEarlier this month, Beijing handed over a new satellite data ground station near Windhoek, Namibia \u2013 the latest in a growing network of space facilities across the continent built by China or with Chinese funding.<br \/>\nThe China-funded ground station at Windhoek\u2019s Telecom Earth Station enables Namibia to process remote-sensing data from satellites,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3344266\/how-china-building-hi-tech-backbone-africas-space-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFrom a satellite ground station in Namibia to an Egyptian laboratory in orbit, China has been building the hi-tech backbone of Africa\u2019s space ambitions.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}