Senegal launches first satellite

Senegal’s first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said. He added the move marked a major step towards the West African country’s “technological sovereignty”. The GAINDESAT-1A satellite was launched at 18:56 GMT Friday from the Vandenberg base in California, Faye wrote in a post on X late Friday. “The [...]

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