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| Kenya to Launch Its First Locally Made Satellite Into Space |
| 2018-05-08 |
| [All Africa] Kenya is set to make history this Friday if all goes as planned to deploy its first locally made satellite into space. The Nano-satellite that was developed by students and researchers of the University of Nairobi in partnership with Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) was handed over to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center in January to prepare for its deployment. UoN director of corporate affairs John Orindi said a delegation, led by Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, would witness the event in Japan. Known as the First Kenya University Nano Satellite-Precursor Flight (1KUNS-PF), it will be the first CubeSat selected to be deployed from Kibo, which is the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the university. "The deployment ceremony will be done from Kibo Space Centre on May 11, 2018 at about 1pm Kenyan time. The Cabinet Secretary, Ambassador Amina Mohammed, will lead a powerful delegation comprising of government officials and university researchers to witness the event live," he said. More details about the preparations will be disclosed later today at a media briefing which will also be attended by the JAXA astronauts via video link from Japan. According to the UoN, the 10 centimetre cube satellite (CubeSat) was developed under the KiboCube programme run by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and JAXA. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 TW, saw that movie years ago in a theater with a friend who had a taste for b rated comedy. But "The Gods Must Be Crazy" was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen for what he called a B-rated movie. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-05-08 22:15 |
| #6 Picturing a coca-cola bottle. The Gods Must Be Crazy, swksvolFF? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-08 22:08 |
| #5 *snort* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-08 20:05 |
| #4 Picturing a coca-cola bottle. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-05-08 19:53 |
| #3 Kenya is set to make history this Friday if all goes as planned to deploy its first locally made satellite into space. No. A big rock on a giant slingshot doesn't count |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-08 19:31 |
| #2 An oversize Rubic's Cube? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2018-05-08 19:20 |
| #1 Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, would witness the event in Japan That should be a safe enough distance from a potentially catastrophic launch failure. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-05-08 11:22 |