South African Teens Launch Africa's First Private Satellite

Bjarke Gotfredsen, founder of the technology development company XinaBox and who purchased Africa's first private satellite, is helping high school students achieve their goals of sending their own satellites built out of microsensors into space.

Video screenshot of high school students operating a private satellite from their classroom "ground control".

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