Ayesha Salie, Sesam Mngqengqiswa, and Bhanekazi Tandwa on a learning boot camp. They were in company of fellow teammates in Worcester, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Photo credit Karl Schoemaker
South African schoolgirls have designed and built payloads for a satellite that will orbit over the earthโs poles scanning Africaโs surface. Once in space, the satellite will collect information on agriculture, and food security within the continent.
Using the data transmitted, โwe can try to determine and predict the problems Africa will be facing in the futureโ. This is according to Brittany Bull, one of the girls in an interview with CNN.
A total of 14 teenagers are currently undergoing training by satellite engineers. This is part of a project by South Africaโs Meta Economic Development Organization (MEDO) and Morehead State University. Scheduled to launch in May 2017. If successful it will make MEDO the first private company in Africa to build a satellite and send it into orbit.
Africans in the diaspora who send money to Africa are increasingly becoming an economic force that is changing lives across the continent. A large numberโฆ
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