Kenya launches first operational satellite into space -Space X

A live feed from Elon Musk’s’s rocket company revealed that NAIROBI( Reuters )- Kenya launched its first functional land study dish on Saturday aboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States.

The dish, created by nine African engineers, may gather data on agriculture and the environment, including floods, drought, and wildfires. Authorities will use this information to manage disasters and fight food insecurity.

After three delays brought on by inclement weather, the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 telescope took off from Vandenberg Base in California at around 0648 GMT without event.

When the telescope was released about an hour and four days after the rocket’s’s release, Space X announced in its program that” Taifa – 1 separating confirmed.”

The planet will be able to help analyze the challenges brought on by climate change because it can capture images, according to Captain. Before the satellite’s’s release on Friday, Alloyce Were, an aerodynamic expert and assistant director of navigation and branding at the government-run Kenya Space Agency, spoke with Reuters.

” We can track changes in urbanization and bush.”

According to the space agency, the satellite cost 50 million Kenyan shillings($ 372, 000 ) over the course of two years with the assistance of Bulgarian aerospace company Endurosat.

According to the organization, it may run for five days before decomposing over a 20-year period and burning out.

Under the carpool program of SpaceX, the establish rocket received 50 payloads from other nations, including Turkey.

( 1 = 134.450 Kenyan shillings )

( Writing by George Obulutsa, reporting by Jefferson Kahinju, and processing by Mark Potter)

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