Kenya collaborates with SpaceX to launch its first satellite for observation

Kenya's first operational earth observation satellite was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States on Saturday, according to a live webcast from Elon Musk's rocket company.The satellite, which was built by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect data on agriculture and the environment, such as data on floods, droughts, and wildfires, which the government plans to use to manage calamities and combat food shortages. The American news organization Reuters is the source of this information. The captain said, "We can monitor changes in the forest and developments in urbanization. According to the organization, it will run for five years before decomposing over a 20-year period, burning out in the atmosphere. 50 payloads from other nations, including Turkey, were on the launch rocket as part of SpaceX's ride-sharing program. The Kenyan Ministry of Defense and the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) hailed "a major milestone" last week that might help "Kenya's nascent space economy." According to Space in Africa, a Nigerian company that monitors African space initiatives, more than 50 African satellites have been launched into orbit as of 2022. In 1998, Egypt became the first nation on the continent to launch a satellite into orbit.