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Senegal's first satellite to go into orbit in March 2023

Tuesday 9 November 2021 | 11:33 CET | News
Senegal will launch its first satellite into space in 2023, Ecofin reported, after an MoU signed two years ago with the National Centre for Space Studies of France and Ariane Group. Gayane Faye, the head of the applied remote sensing laboratory at the Institute of Earth Sciences (IST) of Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD), said three students from local engineering schools went to the Montpellier Space Centre in 2020 for training in space science as part of the project.

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