In Africa Too, the Space Race Is Intensifying, Senegal Wants to Build Its Satellites Locally

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The first, the sky above this sterile laboratory in Montpellier, in the south of France, towards which the apparatus, which constitutes part of a nanosatellite, will soon fly. The second, several thousand kilometers away, in Senegal, where they hope to develop a local industry. "We master the manufacturing process", assures the AFP Gayane Faye, responsible for the Senegalese space programme, Sensat, whose new headquarters, for the construction o…

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More and more African countries are being launched into the space race. Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and today Senegal. Strongly attached to its "sovereignty", the country wants to produce its satellites locally. A challenge in a sector dominated by non-African companies.

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Senegalese engineers assemble in France a brick of their second nanosatellite. The objective is to produce one day entirely in the country. L的article Senegal wants to manufacture its satellites at home, and it starts in Montpellier appeared first on Le Singulier.