Hanno Space is an independent initiative from Tunisia developing Earth intelligence, environmental health insight, and smallsat mission readiness for Africa and MENA. We turn satellite data, technical discipline, and public learning into practical tools for climate resilience and emerging space teams.
Starting with environmental intelligence in Tunisia and mission readiness for early CubeSat and smallsat teams.
We use satellite data to understand environmental change, land stress, erosion, water pressure, and climate risk.
We help early space teams move from a vague CubeSat idea to a clearer, testable, and responsible mission concept.
We make space more legible through education, workshops, open resources, and local partnerships.
Satellites already observe our coastlines, farms, cities, deserts, and watersheds every day. The challenge is turning that data into useful decisions, and turning space ambition into missions that can actually work.
Hanno Space is being built to close that gap from Tunisia. The goal is not to chase space for spectacle. The goal is to build local capability, useful intelligence, and a practical path for future smallsat missions.
Our first focus is environmental resilience. Our long-term ambition is a stronger African and MENA space ecosystem.
Hanno Space starts with two connected products: one focused on Earth intelligence, the other on smallsat mission readiness. Together, they create a path from local environmental needs to credible future space missions.
Satellite-based environmental and health resilience intelligence.
Hanno Earth turns open satellite data into maps, indicators, dashboards, and clear briefs for environmental challenges such as erosion, vegetation stress, land degradation, coastal change, water pressure, heat exposure, and climate-related health risk.
Best for
Researchers, municipalities, NGOs, climate programs, universities, and public-interest projects.
Outputs
Environmental dashboards, change maps, risk indicators, technical briefs, and visual reports.
Smallsat mission readiness for emerging teams.
Hanno Mission helps students, universities, startups, and public-interest teams shape early CubeSat and smallsat ideas into clearer mission concepts, with requirements, risks, budgets, operations, and responsible design considered from the start.
Best for
Student teams, university labs, early-stage space initiatives, NGOs, and institutions exploring satellite missions.
Outputs
Mission canvases, feasibility reviews, readiness checklists, risk registers, training workshops, and concept reports.
Hanno Earth is the first practical layer of Hanno Space. It uses existing Earth observation data to monitor change, reveal patterns, and communicate environmental risks in a way that researchers, communities, and decision-makers can use.
The first pilots will focus on Tunisia, with themes such as land degradation, erosion risk, coastal change, vegetation stress, and water pressure.
The first Hanno Earth pilot will focus on a specific environmental challenge in Tunisia, using open satellite data and a transparent methodology.
Follow the pilotCollect satellite imagery and geospatial data for a specific region and time period.
Identify changes in vegetation, bare soil, water presence, coastline movement, or land use.
Translate technical indicators into clear maps, notes, and risk signals.
Publish dashboards and concise briefs that can support research, education, and local planning.
Environmental conditions shape health long before people reach care. Heat, air quality, flooding, water stress, land degradation, and access constraints can all affect communities and health systems.
Hanno Space explores how satellite and geospatial data can help map these risks earlier, starting with non-clinical environmental health intelligence for Tunisia and the wider region.
Identify areas where urban heat, low vegetation, and built-up density may increase climate stress.
Use environmental data to understand air quality, dust episodes, and exposure patterns.
Map clinics, hospitals, roads, and communities against flood, heat, coastal, or access risk.
Explore environmental indicators that can support research around climate, ecosystems, and public health.
Hanno does not handle patient data or provide medical diagnosis. The focus is environmental intelligence for planning, research, and resilience.
Define the user, objective, data product, constraints, and success criteria.
Translate ambition into measurable technical and operational requirements.
Estimate power, data, communications, risk, schedule, cost, and operational complexity.
Produce a practical roadmap before moving toward hardware, launch, or partnerships.
Many space projects start with the same sentence: "We want to build a CubeSat." Hanno Mission starts one step earlier. What is the mission for? Who needs the data? What does the payload need to measure?
How much power, storage, and downlink does it require? How will it be tested, operated, licensed, and responsibly deorbited? Hanno Mission is a readiness track for emerging teams that want to think clearly before committing money, time, and public trust.
Hanno Mission can help turn it into a clearer concept, with the major assumptions and risks visible from the start.
Request a mission reviewA satellite should not be the first assumption. It should be the result of a clear need. Hanno Earth helps identify environmental questions and data gaps. Hanno Mission turns those gaps into mission concepts.
The goal is not to launch a satellite for symbolism. The goal is to build useful capability that can eventually justify a satellite.
Tunisia sits at the intersection of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Sahara edge. It faces real environmental pressures, but it also has technical talent, universities, engineers, designers, and young people ready to participate in the next space economy.
Hanno Space starts here because local capability matters. The long-term vision is to contribute to a stronger African and MENA space ecosystem, one useful project at a time.
Focus on environmental questions that matter to Tunisia and nearby regions.
Design tools and learning material that can be reused by teams across Africa and MENA.
Build knowledge, partnerships, and technical discipline before orbital ambition.
Use satellite data to monitor land, water, vegetation, coastlines, and climate pressure.
Learn mission design, Earth observation, CubeSat thinking, and practical space systems.
Turn environmental data into clear stories, maps, and briefs for action.
Understand visible changes in land, coast, agriculture, and urban environments.
Clarify mission ideas before spending money on hardware, launch, or complex partnerships.
Use environmental data to understand risk around heat, air quality, flooding, water stress, and care access.
Define the Hanno Space direction, and open conversations with early partners.
Release the first Tunisia-focused environmental intelligence demo using open satellite data.
Launch a first environmental health resilience pilot focused on heat, air, water, or health-infrastructure exposure.
Publish the first mission readiness templates, checklists, and workshop format.
Run workshops with students, researchers, and local organizations.
Identify whether a future Hanno satellite, hosted payload, or ground experiment is justified by a real data gap.
Move toward a responsible pathfinder mission only when the use case, partners, requirements, and funding are mature.
Hanno Space will publish short notes on Earth observation, smallsat mission design, environmental data, and the process of building a space initiative from Tunisia.
The difference between a space project and a useful mission begins with understanding what data is already available.
Coming soonAvoiding the most common failure modes in academic and early-stage small satellite projects.
Coming soonA look into how open Sentinel data can reveal stress patterns across the Tunisian landscape.
Hanno Space is currently being built as a focused independent effort. That is intentional. The first goal is not to appear larger than reality. The first goal is to build useful work, publish clear thinking, create early pilots, and gather the right collaborators around a serious long-term vision.
Space capability is built through discipline, trust, and repeated execution. Hanno starts there.
Mehdi Nakouri, Hanno Space
We see too many space projects prioritize the hype of launch over the reality of the ground. Behind the engineering and the data, this is ultimately about our environment and the people living in it.
We want to equip local teams with the clarity to understand our shifting climate, and the discipline to build solutions that actually work. No empty promises, just the right tools for the right problems.
Sarah Ben Aziza, Hanno Space
If you are working on environmental resilience, Earth observation, CubeSat education, smallsat mission design, or space capacity building in Tunisia, Africa, or MENA, Hanno Space is open to early conversations.