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22 September 2026 · Africa Flying

Space Portal, with empty SSA left empty

The San Marco launch platform, an oil-rig style structure with masts, a crane and a helicopter deck standing in calm sea off the Kenyan coast near Malindi.
The San Marco launch platform off Malindi, Kenya, used for satellite launches in the 1960s and 1970s.Credit: NASA, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. Source.

What the portal shows is what the space API has stored.

The Space Portal is a dashboard on the development stack, backed by its own space data service. Checked on 22 September 2026: the portal listed public launch records and public Earth-observation spacecraft, and 0 space-situational-awareness events. Africa Flying has no launches and no spacecraft of its own. Empty SSA means no live vendor event. Placeholder seed alerts were removed on purpose.

Launches are read from Launch Library 2. A second launch source was failing when this was written, so it is not used. Spacecraft in the catalog are public Earth-observation missions used over Africa, not vehicles this project operates.

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