Our team
The people building OLSPACE.
OLSPACE is a small team based in Dar es Salaam, working on satellite systems, engineering education, and the programs that connect the two.
Founder
Team is growing
OLSPACE is still a small team. As engineers, educators, and collaborators join the work, they'll be introduced here rather than listed before they're actually on board.
c. 1998–2000
Built and ran Melody FM / Kinyange FM, a small self-taught FM radio station in Marangu, at the foot of Kilimanjaro — entirely self-taught, and the starting point for everything that followed.
Ongoing
Part of the team developing Tanzania's Amateur Radio Club.
Aug 2026
Ground station operator on DIT's newly commissioned ground station for TanzaniteSat-1, working alongside former DIT lecturers now as colleagues. Read the full story.