Ugandan scientists have completed training in far away Japan to launch a satellite into orbit next year.
According to details, a team of three Ugandan graduate engineers were successfully enrolled by Japan among them; Bonny Omara, Edgar Mujunu, and Derrick Tebuseke to undertake a cause that was envisaged to last for a period of two and half years.
Uganda thus has joined 12 African countries including Rwanda in the space technology race in a very big way by propping into orbit its first satellite dubbed – PearlAfricaSat-1 with expected launch in August 2022.
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The initiative to build Uganda’s first satellite began in October 2019, as part of a directive by President Yoweri Museveni to the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation to put in place a National Space Agency and Institute.
The collaborative research agreement was signed with Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan to enroll and up-skill three graduate engineers to design, build, test, and launch the first satellite for Uganda.
