Minister of Higher
Education and Scientific Research of Algeria Taher Hajjar stressed that his
country will launch the first Algerian satellite (SAT B-2) in February.
Hajjar said during a
session to discuss innovative financing mechanisms institutions in the Algerian
Parliament that “the satellite accomplished by Algerian experts and falls
within the space program of the Algerian Space Agency, which aims to launch 10
satellites by 2020.”
The Director of Studies
at the Algerian Space Agency has said the month of February, that the satellite
is called “SAT B-2” project was nearing its end and will be launched from
Hamacair Bashar station, which dates back to the colonial period and was the
seat of the French Centre for testing spacecraft, and retrieved Algeria in 1967
.
The “SAT B-2” satellite
III, launched by Algeria after the launch of two satellites first “SAT 1” in
2002 from a Russian launch base “Plesetsk Cosmodrome” and the second was “SAT
2” in 2010 from a position of “Sriharikota” Indian object in “Chennai” in the
Bay of Bengal, which is nearing the end of his life cycle, and is restricted
uses satellites to monitor climate change and combating desertification.
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