Last news

NEWS

Kenya will launch its first satellite into space

Taifa 1, designed by Kenyan engineers, will observe the Earth

04-04-2023 by redazione

Kenya is preparing to launch its first operational earth observation satellite into space. The advances in space engineering in the country must undeniably say thanks in part to the collaboration with Italy thanks to the Luigi Broglio Space Center in Ngomeni, near Malindi, which was also recently visited by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, along with Defense Minister Aden Duale. It was the Defense Ministry itself, in a joint press conference with the Kenya Space Agency, that revealed that on April 10 everything is ready to launch the first satellite, which has been named "Taifa 1" (in the Kiswahili language, taifa means "nation"). The launch will be carried out by the Space X organization via a Falcon-9 rocket from the Vandenberg base in California, USA. Kenya Space Agency said that "Taifa-1" was entirely designed and developed by a team of Kenyan engineers and that parts production and testing were carried out in cooperation with EnduroSat AD, a Bulgarian aerospace manufacturer.
The Kenyan team underwent three months of customized training on the space environment, orbital mechanics, space systems engineering, space operations, and project management to be able to understand and design a mission that could survive the extreme space environment.
"The project involved research and development of the different components of satellite mission design, the entire satellite development cycle, in-orbit control, and data reception and processing," the KSA and MoD said. The result is that the satellite will provide timely and regular satellite data that will help agriculture and food security, natural resource management, disaster management and environmental monitoring, and that, "will significantly help stimulate the growth of satellite development capabilities, data analysis and processing, and application development of Kenya's nascent space economy."

TAGS: spaziobrogliosatelliteingegneri

by redazione

It is called 'Simba', and is a satellite created by students and researchers at La Sapienza University...

READ ALL THE ARTICLE

An anniversary that can not go unnoticed, not only in Malindi and Kenya but throughout Italy.
On Wednesday, April 26, the fiftieth anniversary of the first launch of an Italian satellite from the San Marco space station of Ngomeni falls.READ ALL THE REVIEW

by redazione

The recent renewal of the cooperation between Italy and Kenya to the Space Center "Luigi Broglio" of Ngomeni, north of Malindi, will bring new projects in this 2017, particularly important year as it marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first...

READ ALL

If ever the predictions launched a few days ago by the father of Artificial Intelligence Elon Musk were ...

READ ALL THE ARTICLE

This morning the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, will fly from Nairobi to...

READ THE ARTICLE

Yesterday morning, an important meeting was held in Rome between the Minister of Enterprise and...

READ ALL THE ARTICLE

The Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, has envisioned for the Luigi Broglio Space...

READ THE ARTICLE

by redazione

April 26, 1967, alongside his mentor Luigi Broglio, the Italian coach Franco Esposito was in the team which organized north of Malindi the launch of the first satellite in space from Eastern Africa.
Today, fifty years later, the Kenyan citizen...

READ ALL THE STORY

NEWS

by redazione

The Italian Ambassador to Kenya, Alberto Pieri, will be in Malindi on Saturday 24 August to meet his...

READ ALL THE ARTICLE

by redazione

These days at the National Museum of Kenya, in the "Creativity Gallery" space, the Italian...

READ ALL THE ARTICLE

The evening of Christmas Eve, with midnight celebrations, is spent in Malindi at Olimpia Club, with the...

READ THE ARTICLE