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China-Funded Satellite Television Project Benefits 1,000 Villages in

Mozambique

Mozambique announced the conclusion of here today we are reviewing how the all the ten provinces and the capital city of
a project to bring digital satellite television beneficiaries feel with the project and we Mozambique, was co-funded by China and
signal to 1,000 villages in the country, are able to testify that they are happy, they implemented by the Chinese electronics
which is supposed to benefit over 20,000 have direct access to information and we and media company StarTimes. The
families. The Minister of Transport and share their satisfaction," said the Minister. project is part of the resolutions of the
Communication Janfar Abdulai made the He said the project generated about Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on
announcement after reviewing the project 2,000 jobs in total and trained work force China-Africa Cooperation in 2015, in
in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. particularly young people to be in charge which the Chinese government pledged
"This project is included in the 100 days of of the maintenance and provide assistance to provide satellite television access for
governance and now it is totally concluded, to the beneficiaries. The project, covering 10,000 villages in Africa.

ULA Launches X-37B Spaceplane for US Space Force

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the
Atlas V 501 from Space Launch Complex-41
(SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in Florida on Sunday, at 9:14 a.m.
EDT, carrying the USSF-7 mission for the
U.S. Space Force. The launch was delayed
one day due to bad weather. It marked
the sixth flight of the X-37B Orbital Test
Vehicle (OTV-6) and ULA’s second mission
for the U.S. Space Force. The Boeing-built
X-37B is an autonomous spaceplane. It
was first launched in April 2010. According
to Boeing, the X-37B was designed for
missions of 270 days duration, but has
set endurance records during each of its
five previous flights. Most recently, X-37B
spent 780 days on orbit before returning
to Earth in October 2019. The mission also
deployed FalconSat-8, a small satellite
developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy an experiment sponsored by the Naval working through challenging, and ever
and sponsored by the Air Force Research Research Laboratory were also on board. changing, health and safety conditions,”
Laboratory (AFRL) to conduct experiments “The success of this mission resulted from said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of
on orbit. Two NASA experiments and collaboration with our customer while Government and Commercial Programs.

Myanmar to Launch Its First Satellite in 2021

Myanmar plans to launch its first satellite orbit with the help of Japan's Hokkaido prevent and reduce damage from disasters
in 2021, using Japanese technology, Nikkei University and Tohoku University. The and monitor environmental pollution,
Asian Review reported. Engineers and satellite will be an earth observation according to the report.
researchers in the country will develop an satellite, which will be used to raise
ultrasmall satellite and launch it into Earth productivity in agriculture, as well as to

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