{"id":264521,"date":"2017-07-07T19:06:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=264521"},"modified":"2020-11-22T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T14:42:25","slug":"ghana-launches-its-first-satellite-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/ghana-launches-its-first-satellite-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana launches its first satellite into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>It\u2019s time to remove completely, from African brains, the inferiority complex toward white people: they colonized, enslaved, and pillaged (and still pillage) Africa not because they are more intelligent, but only because they are more violent and barbarian, suffering from an extreme superiority complex!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ghana has successfully launched its first satellite into space.<\/p>\n<p>GhanaSat-1, which was developed by students at All Nations University in Koforidua, was sent into orbit from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers erupted as 400 people, including the engineers, gathered in the southern Ghanaian city to watch live pictures of the launch. The first signal was received shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>It is the culmination of a two-year project, costing $500,000 (\u00a3400,000).<\/p>\n<p>It received support from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be used to monitor Ghana&#8217;s coastline for mapping purposes, and to build capacity in space science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Damoah, director of the Space Systems Technology Laboratory at the All Nations University, said it marked a new beginning for the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has opened the door for us to do a lot of activities from space,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would &#8220;also help us train the upcoming generation on how to apply satellites in different activities around our region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For instance, [monitoring] illegal mining is one of the things we are looking to accomplish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40538471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40538471<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: It\u2019s time to remove completely, from African brains, the inferiority complex toward white people: they colonized, enslaved, and pillaged (and still pillage) Africa not because they are more intelligent, but only because they are more violent and barbarian, suffering from an extreme superiority complex! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}