Nigeria has beaten South Africa in the African space race, according to delegates to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), being held on the continent for the first time in its 62-year history.
Nigeria sent two more satellites into orbit from Russia in August. NigeriaSat-X and NigeriaSat-2 are the country’s first satellites to be designed and built to flight standard by local engineers. Earlier Nigerian satellites were outsourced.
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