{"id":84147,"date":"2011-10-04T21:13:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nigeria-launches-first-african-built-imagery-satellite\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:13:49","slug":"nigeria-launches-first-african-built-imagery-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nigeria-launches-first-african-built-imagery-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Launches First African Built Imagery Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-04-11] Nigeria has launched NigeriaSat-X \u2013 the first satellite designed and built in Africa and the second of two Earth observation satellites that the country has recently launched, Nigerian officials confirmed Oct. 2.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;NigeriaSat-X is the country\u2019s fourth satellite and is the result of a training agreement between the <b>National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)<\/b> and manufacturer <b>Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.<\/b> (SSTL). NASRDA said 26 Nigerian engineers attended a training program over an eighteen-month period at the satellite developer\u2019s offices in the United Kingdom.<br \/>\n<b>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/b>Separately, the first high-resolution satellite imagery was released Oct. 2 from NigeriaSat-2, as engineers from NASRDA and SSTL completed testing of all the systems on-board the spacecraft. \u201cCalibration of the imaging payloads is ongoing with outstanding results already being produced,\u201d NASRDA officials said.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;NASRDA also said it plans to harness the satellite\u2019s new capabilities and fast image downloading to map Nigeria in detail every four months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-04-11] Nigeria has launched NigeriaSat-X \u2013 the first satellite designed and built in Africa and the second of two Earth observation satellites that the country has recently launched, Nigerian officials confirmed Oct. 2. &nbsp; &nbsp;NigeriaSat-X is the country\u2019s fourth satellite and is the result of a training agreement between the National Space Research and Development [&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-84147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84147"}],"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=84147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}