Can Nigeria make a satellite by 2018?




The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Abdu Bulama, disclosed recently in Abuja that Nigeria would design, fabricate, test and launch its indigenous satellite by 2018.
Bulama stated this when he inspected facilities at the Obasanjo Space Centre of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA). The minister said the centre had the mandate to launch Nigeria's first indigenous satellite by 2018, and described space science and technology programme as an important component of the Nigerian dream.
The Assembly, Testing and Integration Centre, and the Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite are the nucleus of NASRDA. The satellite ought to be launched By 2018, to be built in Nigerian laboratory and launched by Nigerian scientists.
According to him, competence and capabilities in satellite technology serve as tool for national growth and a huge contribution to the development and benefit of mankind.
Nigeria aims to follow suit with the likes of India whom just launched a $74 million Indian spacecraft entered orbit around Mars yesterday after an almost year long voyage

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