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Why Ghana Started a Space Program

• motherboard.vice.com

The lively centre of Koforidua, hemmed in by lush green mountains, appears to be the typical Ghanaian city.

A short drive outside town, atop the roof of the All Nations University College (ANUC), history is in the making. Members of Ghana's first university space science laboratory, joined by a NASA engineer, are busily installing meteorological instruments. The installation will provide the university with detailed climate readings from Koforidua and its surroundings and feed back to NASA's global climate database in the US.

The project is the latest achievement for the university which, along with the government and a string of other academic institutions, is helping spearhead Ghana's fledgling space science industry. While often met with scepticism and criticism about spending, the quest to create space science programs in Ghana and across Africa is taking off.


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