South Africa to Launch Mini Satellite for Space

Students at a university of technology have designed and made the country's first nano satellite which is to be launched into space from Russia and collect information about space weather.

Graduates of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, from left, Reiner Siebrits and Leon Steenkamp work on the satellite.

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