Enegal successfully launched its first satellite into space on Friday, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced. Named Gaindé Sat-1 (Automated Management of Environmental Information and Data by SATellite), the device launched from the USA was designed and manufactured by Senegalese engineers in partnership with the Montpellier University Space Center.
Senegal is entering a new era today
with the successful launch of our first new zealand telegram data satellite, Gaindé Sat-1A at exactly 6:56 p.m. from the Vandenberg base in California,” announced the Senegalese president on the X network. “The result of five years of hard work by our engineers and technicians, this advance marks a major step towards our technological sovereignty,” continued the president.
“This is an important step and a historic day in the progress of our country and the desire to make it a space nation,” noted astronomer Maram Kairé, director general of the Senegalese space studies agency, via the X network. Kairé said that Gaindé Sat-1A is one of the 116 small satellites how to repurpose old content to improve seo launched today by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The data collected by Gaindé Sat 1-A will, according to the Ministry of Higher Education.
Research and Innovation (Mesri), be used for purposes of “climate deb directory monitoring, natural disaster management, monitoring of air and water quality”, among others. In 2019, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research initiated the Senegalese space project (SENSAT) with the aim of providing the country with a dynamic space sector. According to its latest data updated in February 2024, the specialist firm “Space hubs Africa” reported that the continent had 59 satellites launched by 15 countries on that date.
Sunsat, the very first African one
was launched by South Africa in 1998 and the last one, Nexsat-1, by Egypt in February 2024, according to the same source. These two countries are also at the top of the ranking with 12 for South Africa and 10 satellites for Egypt according to Business Insider.
Algeria and Nigeria follow with 6 satellites each put into orbit. The results show that farmers have local knowledge that allows them to learn more about the effect of climate change on agricultural production. Nearly 75% showed that the decrease in the amount of rainfall is the basis of a drop in production yield.
However, farmers’ perception of climate change is
reflected locally by several indicators that modify the conditions of Indeed, 50% of those surveyed believe that it is the
late start of the rainy season. Almost all of those surveyed, 80% of those surveyed say they
have noticed an overall increase in current temperatures during the rainy season. And 90% of farmers say that it is especially
during the rainy season that they observe an increase in wind speed. At the beginning of the rainy season.
Thus, the studies carried out by Anass (2016), Agoussou (2008), Dan Maza (2020). TP Zoungrana (2010) and Lona I (2010), showed results quite similar to the results of the study area. Also, the winds stand out for their intensities and the damage. They cause to the natural environment (WAZIRI MATO et al, 2012), cited by Anass (2016, p71). Zoungrana (2010) cited by Chitou Dan Maza (2020) had concluded. That sometimes peasant perceptions of climate change on agricultural production agree with meteorological observations.