GhanaSat-1
Sign in to saveGhanaSat-1 was the first Ghanaian nanosatellite to be launched into space. It was designed and built in two years in conjunction with the Kyushu Institute of Technology Birds-1 program, which has the goal of helping countries build their first satellite.
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- Instance of
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Image
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- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Falcon 9
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2017-06-03
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GhanaSat-1 was the first Ghanaian nanosatellite to be launched into space. It was designed and built in two years in conjunction with the Kyushu Institute of Technology Birds-1 program, which has the goal of helping countries build their first satellite.
The satellite took images, collected atmospheric data, measured space radiation, and transmitted uploaded audio. GhanaSat-1 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Falcon 9 rocket. It was released into space from the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer on the ISS on 7 July 2017 and was used to monitor environmental activities along Ghana's coastline. The satellite deorbited on 22 May 2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GhanaSat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.