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A new nanosatellite by Nigeria will be launched before the end of May, an official said in New York on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, Prof. Seidu Mohammed, said the launch would be in conjunction with Japan, Ghana, Bangladesh and Nepal.<\/p>\n

Nanosatellite is applied to an artificial satellite with a wet mass between 1 and 10 kg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are happy to announce the fact that the Project Manager of these five countries is a Nigerian who used this as his PhD work.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo within the window of 23rd to 27th of May, the nanosatellite along with four other countries would be launched from the launch base in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt once again demystifies high-tech; the fact that our engineers and scientists designed and built this, give them further confidence, that is one.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo, the fact that we built Nigerian Sat-X and we built this one is consolidating our know-how technology transfer already acquired by Nigerians from most of these studies embarked upon by the agency.<\/p>

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\u201cAnd in addition to that, is a scientific work; we need to understand our environment better because of space investment already made by Nigeria and some other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, Nigerian satellites are also contributing to image intelligence that is doing the analysis of problems towards solving them.<\/p>\n

He added that the satellites were helpful in addressing some of the security challenges in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing our best. We did our best in the past and we would continue to help the security agencies along this line,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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