Many believe Nigeria's National Space Research and Development Agency is redundant, but the agency says it has 'been doing a lot especially in providing strategic information to the military on the location of insurgents and militants.' Nigeria NASRDA
The United States has also recorded major breakthrough in her plans to send tourists to space with the splashing down of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in the Gulf of Mexico on August 2, successfully completing a test flight and crossing the finish line of the decade-long commercial crew programme.
But the Head, Corporate Communications, NASRDA, Dr. Felix Alle, disagrees. “We are not moribund. We have been doing a lot especially in providing strategic information to the military on the location of insurgents and militants. We are also helping in the fight against corruption be providing basic information. Also, we just completed our space museum,” Alle said.
Additionally, space missions snatch pieces of other worlds and bring them back to Earth. United States Aeronautic Space Agency on July 30, 2020 launched its Perseverance rover to the Mars - the first step towards fulfilling a long-standing dream of planetary scientists. If everything goes to plan, Perseverance will arrive in February 2021 and drive around, collecting samples of rock that, one day, other spacecraft will pick up and fly back to Earth.
A study published in International Journal of Business and Management Future and titled “Africa’s Space Technology Investment and Socio-Economic Returns: The Case of Nigeria”, took a look at space technology investment in Africa and application of space technology in solving socio-economic problems in the continent with a special focus on Nigeria.
Indeed, the major problem that is plaguing NASRDA is the unavailability of sufficient funds to effectively execute its mandate. NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X, Nigeria’s third and fourth satellites were built as a high-resolution earth satellite by SSTL for DMCS also. NigComSat and NASRDA operated the spacecraft. On November 11, 2008, NigComSat-1 failed in orbit after running out of power due to an anomaly in its solar array.
Ajayi Boroffice, who was also the past Chairman Senate Committee of S&T, disclosed also that Nigeria would take advantage of its geographic location to launch into near-equatorial orbit by indigenous developed space launcher from a national spaceport to be built near 2025-2028 with possible help from Ukraine.He had promised that the first Nigerian astronaut is scheduled to launch abroad a foreign spacecraft sometime between 2015 and 2020.
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