ZAMBIA TO LAUNCH OWN SATELLITE – MUTATIBy NATION REPORTERGOVERNMENT has set a target for Zambia to launch its own satellite at least in the next two years in order for the country to have timely data to inform decision making.Minister of Technology and Science, Felix Mutati, said this ambition would need to be backed by the development of a space science policy which should underpin the target to launch the satellite as a starting point.Mr Mutati said what the country was doing now is borrowing space from other satellites which limits access to data when it was needed.He was speaking yesterday during a familiarization tour of the National Remote Sensing Centre and the National Institute for Scientific Research infrastructure in Lusaka.Mr Mutati said as a result of lacking access to data due to the dependence on foreign satellites, certain disasters which could be avoided were not prevented.He said the new dawn government’s goal was that […]
ZAMBIA TO LAUNCH OWN SATELLITE – MUTATI
