Two African Teenagers Build First Satellite to be Launched by Africa. 17-year-old Brittany Bull and 16-year-old Sesam Mngqengqiswa have grand ambitions, to launch Africa's first private satellite into space in May, 2017.They are part of a team of high school girls from Cape Town, South Africa, who have designed and built payloads for a satellite that will orbit over the earth's poles scanning Africa's surface.
Once in space, the satellite will collect information on agriculture, and food security within the continent.Using the data transmitted, "we can try to determine and predict the problems Africa will be facing in the future", explains Bull, a student at Pelican Park High School.
Source:http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/tech/girls-design-africa-space-satellite/
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