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The satellite was launched in April 2018 and deorbited in June 2020. [10] At present, Kenya is an active participant in the African Resource Management Satellite Constellation (ARMC) initiative and the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project with other member nations.
t. e. The African Space Agency ( AfSA) is a regional space organisation established by the African Union (AU) to promote cooperation between the space policies of the AU's member states. The AU adopted a space strategy in 2016 and agreed upon the statute underlying AfSA in 2018. In 2019, Egypt was declared the host, and the organisation was ...
Ghana. GhanaSat-1. All Nations University. Launched on same rocket as first Bangladeshi and Mongolian satellites. Mongolia. Mazaalai (satellite) National University of Mongolia. Launched on same rocket as first Ghanaian and Bangladeshi satellites. Latvia.
Ghana through All Nations University is a private university in Ghana to build the first Ghana satellite named Ghanasat-1. The Ghanasat-1 was developed by three engineers namely Benjamin Bonsu, Ernest Matey, Joseph Quansah. The Ghana Team led by Benjamin Bonsu joined the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds satellite program, supported by Kyushu ...
SUNSAT. The Stellenbosch UNiversity SATellite or SUNSAT (COSPAR 1999-008C) was the first miniaturized satellite designed and manufactured in South Africa. [1] It was launched aboard a Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on 23 February 1999 to become the first launched South African satellite.
The satellite based on Orbital's flight-proven STAR-2 platform and generates approximately five kilowatts of payload power for 36 active transponders. [20] Upon completion of in-orbit testing, operational control of the satellite was handed over to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Communications and IT, and since October, 2017 Azercosmos OJSCo controls ...
The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is the national space agency of Nigeria. It is a parastatal under Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology. The agency is based in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja in the Lugbe district and has a ground receiving station, among various other sites.
This is a list of past and present satellites of the BeiDou/Compass navigation satellite system.As of December 2023, 44 satellites are operational: 7 in geostationary orbits (GEO), 10 in 55° inclined geosynchronous orbits (IGSO) and 27 in Medium Earth orbits (MEO).