{"id":83109,"date":"2012-05-14T21:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasrda-to-decommission-nigeriasat-1\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:26:21","slug":"nasrda-to-decommission-nigeriasat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasrda-to-decommission-nigeriasat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"NASRDA to Decommission NigeriaSat-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-14-12] The <b>Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)<\/b> is planning to decommission its NigeriaSat-1 spacecraft soon, NASRDA Director General Mohammed Seidu confirmed in a May 11 statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Seidu added that the country\u2019s second Earth observation satellite, NigeriaSat-2, has completed in-orbit testing and is now set for commercial activities. NigeriaSat-2 was launched in August 2011.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cFor security reasons, I cannot disclose the specific time for decommissioning NigeriaSat-1 and the takeoff of commercial activities for the NigeriaSat-2,\u201d said Seidu. \u201cNigeriaSat-1 had come to the end of its life and needed to be decommissioned so that the fuel left in it could be used for the decommissioning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-14-12] The Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is planning to decommission its NigeriaSat-1 spacecraft soon, NASRDA Director General Mohammed Seidu confirmed in a May 11 statement. &nbsp; &nbsp;Seidu added that the country\u2019s second Earth observation satellite, NigeriaSat-2, has completed in-orbit testing and is now set for commercial activities. NigeriaSat-2 was launched in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}