[thechat] Nigeria has a space agency!
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Fri Sep 26 05:19:24 CDT 2003
Ashok Hariharan wrote:
> Nigeria's first satellite will be launched from Siberia on September 26th.
>
> According to Nigeria's Daily Trust: "... the satellite was built by 15
> Nigerian
> engineers with the technical input of the University of Surrey (Surrey
> Satellite Technology). The satellite cost $13 million and will be used
> for
> disaster monitoring...."
... and probably for mass broadcast of spam mail ...
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