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Nigeria To Launch 2nd Earth Observation Satellite In 2008

File photo: Scientist with NigeriaSat-1 spacecraft.
by Staff Writers
Abuja (XNA) Sep 22, 2006
Nigeria has started work on the design and construction of its second earth observation satellite billed for launch in 2008, Director General of the National Space Research and Development Agency Robert Boroffice said here on Thursday.

"The Satellite will be built with the active participation of many of Nigerian engineers," he said, adding that Nigeria had a pool of highly trained engineers to undertake the design, construction and launch of the satellite with little assistance from foreign experts.

He said the satellite known, as NigeriaSat-2 would be an improvement on NigeriaSat-1, which "is a medium resolution earth observation satellite."

He said his agency was considering suitable payloads for the NigeriaSat-2 spacecraft, adding that a 2.5m panchromatic camera, 5m multispectral camera in five bands and a 32m multispectral camera in three channels would be used to ensure high resolution.

When launched in 2008, he said, NigeriaSat-2 would provide a wide range of applications in the areas of infrastructure, water resources management, agricultural land use, population estimation, health hazard monitoring and disaster mitigation and management.

NigeriaSat-1, which was launched in 2003 from Plesetsk, Russia, into 686km polar orbit has been capturing high quality images using six cameras on board the Satellite.

Apart from demonstrating good applications and commercial value, NigeriaSat-1 has been configured in Disaster Monitoring Constellation with other Satellites from Algeria, China, Turkey and Britain.

Boroffice said NigeriaSat-1 had given the country an added advantage of global coverage and daily revisit with provision of real time data.

"Imageries from NigeriaSat-1 have been used to solve many global problems such as refugee management in Darfur region of Sudan, flood and tsunami disaster management in New Orleans," he added.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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