NASA rocket transports first ever Zimbabwean and Ugandan satellites into space

Zimbabwe and Uganda have launched their first homegrown satellites into space yesterday aboard a NASA rocket.

Zimbabwe’s satellite, named ZimSat-1, was designed and assembled by three of the country’s scientists who were supported and trained in Japan.

Uganda’s satellite, the PearlAfricaSat-1 was also built by three of its own aerospace engineers, and hope that it will be able to set up its own command station to manage it.

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