The first outer-space object registered by Kenya has been launched and is now flying over our heads.
The news: Created by the University of Nairobi, satellite 1KUNS-PF was launched from the Japanese module of the International Space Station. The 10-centimeter-square cube-sat was originally launched to the station on an April resupply mission. This makes Kenya the first sub-Saharan African nation to deploy a nano-satellite into space.
Some background: NASA did launch a satellite from Kenya back in the 1970s, but it was not a Kenya-centric project and did little to benefit the country. After the launch, the country’s space program essentially stopped.
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