{"id":64742,"date":"2017-05-30T22:33:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=64742"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:33:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:33:20","slug":"futa-joins-the-space-league-as-spacer-falcons-rocket-launches-birds-1-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/futa-joins-the-space-league-as-spacer-falcons-rocket-launches-birds-1-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"FUTA joins the Space League as Spacer Falcons Rocket launches Birds 1 Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, scientific prowess will get a big fillip on Thursday, June 1st at 10.55pm (Nigerian time), when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launches Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. <\/p>\n
The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned by The Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) in collaboration with National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Abuja, Nigeria, and Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan. <\/p>\n
Ibukun Adebolu of FUTA\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering is the representative of Nigeria on the project. It is the first ever University satellite to be launched in Nigeria. <\/p>\n
The CubeSats will be launched and docked to the International Space Station where the satellites will be deployed into lower orbit during the last week of June 2017. <\/p>\n
The CubeSats launch can be viewed live via the link https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P11y8N22Rq0 and http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/missions Nigeria\u2019s media outfits are expected to view the launch and capture the reports and photographs for public consumption\/information.<\/p>\n
The major objective of NigeriaEdusat-1 is capacity building, i. e. domesticating the satellite technology in a Nigerian university, FUTA, and making the technology a common business among staff and students of the university in Nigeria for the purpose of research, resources and environmental management and sustainable socio-economic development of the nation. <\/p>\n
The satellite technology development in the long run shall have spillover effects on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education that is an essential tool for a country industrial development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, scientific prowess will get a big fillip on Thursday, June 1st at 10.55pm (Nigerian time), when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launches Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. The Nigerian CubeSat, code […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":64743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21213,20987,36837,21017,36838],"yoast_head":"\n