South Africa's space industry has taken one small but significant step - breaking ground on the first-in-Africa deep space ground station. The project will help track NASA's Artemis program to the moon and send the first astronauts to Mars from the village of Maties-fountein, about three hours from Cape Town. DW's Adrian Kriesch went to see where they'll soon be tracking the satellites.

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