[thechat] Nigeria has a space agency!

[William Anderson]

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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