Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk’s rocket company showed. | Reuters
A model of a prototype of a 3U Earth observation satellite, the Taifa-1, is displayed ahead of the launch of Kenya’s first operational satellite, at the University of Nairobi’s Taifa Hall in Nairobi, Kenya April 14, 2023. Taifa-1 is designed and developed by SayariLabs and EnduroSat, and will be deployed onboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket to collect agricultural data that authorities plan to use to combat food insecurities.
The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity.The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 satellite, took off at about 0648 GMT without incident from Vandenberg Base in California, after three postponements due to bad weather.
“We have the challenges that have been brought about by climate change, which the satellite, by virtue of being able to capture images ”, Capt. Alloyce Were, an aeronautical engineer and deputy director of Navigation and Positioning at the government-run Kenya Space Agency, told Reuters on Friday before the satellite’s launch.The satellite was put together with the help of Bulgarian aerospace company Endurosat at a cost of 50 million Kenyan shillings over two years, the space agency said.
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