Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
Botswana plans to launch its first satellite, BOT SAT-1, in 2023, a project hosted by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. While addressing Botswana parliament in the annual State of the Nation Address, Botswana’s President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, revealed these plans, noting that the country’s premier satellite will allow “Water resource management, industrial development, environmental management, food security, land management and sustainable agriculture. The Bot-SAT-1 will bring Botswana into the global satellite ecosystem for research and development in a variety 32 of disciplines”, he explained.The satellite will elevate Botswana as a knowledge-based economy that can generate real-time information from…
