badbros: ohhhhh I see.
they fly to the moon but they can't find food for the starving

it's a huge source of foreign exchange.
Btw,india has more starving people than the whole of Africa,yet they are planning to go to Mars this year.

What a waste!!!!!!!!

In 2005 NigeriaSat-1 was the first satellite to send back pictures of the east coast of the US following Hurricane Katrina, says Nice. And the orbiter contributed images to aid workers following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nigeria provides disaster-related imagery for free, but the country generates income from the satellites by selling other image data.

Interesting.

Anyone know how much?

How does this reduce heavy cost of browsing?

adeaugustus: Now they are scared of what the country might use her technology knowledge and resources for in the nearest future.

They are not scared. They know Nigeria and Nigerians too well.
They only became bold enough to charge their government to stop the foreign aid if Nigeria doesn't know how to utilize it.

Matter of fact, the British politicians are speaking on your behalf....since you do not know that the Nigerian sattelites are white elephant projects.

ProminentStar: all I asked for was ur help and since u couldn't do that u should have kept mute.

no mind am no no wan kill am

ProminentStar: I just joined nairaland. please how do I comment on threads?

The way you made this comment is the how

Sagytarius°:
Why use satellite to collect date when Calenders full for market?
Even my nokia touch knows the time and date even without mtn network.
Make I hear word o jare.
Satelite ko. Dish ni.

PS. I nor read that long article sha. So nor crucify me.

I didn't even read it as "date" , but "data". It is a mistake from the OP!

What is wrong with these mods and OP. Its data not date.
If person yab una nw, na ban

Advancement in technology ..... My great nation, l love you...

Why can't we use these satellites to track the movements of Boko Harams and other terrorist groups? [size=8pt][/size]

adeaugustus: Now they are scared of what the country might use her technology knowledge and resources for in the nearest future.

UH

they built it for us, launched it for us, controll it for us, what is there to be scared of? it's not like we know what to do with the data sef!

ProminentStar: I just joined nairaland. please how do I comment on threads?

you already did nigga,,
happy?? Good.
You can now excuse yourself to the zoo...

I don hear.
Please which of the satellite will help us monitor corruption in Nigeria? Yes na you i ask

Lol NIGERIA wey launch satellite forget code!!!..

E suppose to be DATA ... not date abi jambite brinq topic enta FP?

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/4d0c2738-2ab4-48a0-8697-a54db236e104/NigeriaSat-X-with-Nigerian-engineers?width=800[/img]

Nigerian engineers working on NigeriaSat-X (image credit: SSTL)

[img]http://1.bp..com/-T-IPxl-AJ1Q/T628xN7QsNI/AAAAAAAABzA/CXI2eDBeo8k/s640/naija+sat.jpg[/img]

its DataNot date

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/3183e417-7afa-4799-b897-4a2818626369/Nigerian-KHTTS-wtih-N2?width=800[/img]

Nigerian engineers with NigeriaSat-2 in SSTL's cleanrooms (Credit SSTL)

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/c4c4b9cd-3905-46f8-b223-9933e8ee1dac/Nigerian-engineers-with-N2?width=800[/img]

Nigerian engineers with NigeriaSat-2 in SSTL's cleanrooms (Credit: SSTL)

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/d99f365f-b598-47b0-9eb4-a94c8924d917/NigeriaSat-2[/img]

NigeriaSat-2. (Credit SSTL)

bright007: the last time i checked...
browsing the net and buying internet data remains very expensive in Nigeria compared to other countries with or without satelite in space.

This is exactly what came to my mind. We pay exorbitant fees for(poor) internet service even though the satellite is ours

just like we pay so much to power our generators despite having oil wells

Despite having kainji and so much rainfall(that even get to cause erosion and flooding), we cannot have regular power supply.

Sunrays are wasting when solar technology is booming elsewhere.

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/8297465b-60f3-44d7-a18e-7f493ae00d20/N2-closeup[/img]

Close-up of NigeriaSat-2 showing Antenna Pointing Mechanisms and both imagers

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/d575c7e3-a56f-46f9-8208-85117efd296d/N2-inside_009[/img]

NigeriaSat-2 with solar panel off showing proplusion tanks

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/91313b45-e5dd-4809-bf35-b27e5de3e36a/DM000264VI_PSH_Maiduguri_Nigeria_Airport_PED[/img]

NigeriaSat-2 pan-sharpened colour image of Maiduguri Airport, Nigeria at 2.5m resolution (Credit: NASRDA 2012)

Dnt even know why i waste 10kb data take open dis thread sef

Well done Horus.

Perhaps GEJ is doing something afterall. But the men at the grassroot (the vast majority of the people of the land) need to feed well to understand all these space stuff.

Horus: [img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/8297465b-60f3-44d7-a18e-7f493ae00d20/N2-closeup[/img]

Close-up of NigeriaSat-2 showing Antenna Pointing Mechanisms and both imagers

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/d575c7e3-a56f-46f9-8208-85117efd296d/N2-inside_009[/img]

NigeriaSat-2 with solar panel off showing proplusion tanks

[img]http://www.sstl.co.uk/getattachment/91313b45-e5dd-4809-bf35-b27e5de3e36a/DM000264VI_PSH_Maiduguri_Nigeria_Airport_PED[/img]

NigeriaSat-2 pan-sharpened colour image of Maiduguri Airport, Nigeria at 2.5m resolution (Credit: NASRDA 2012)

We need now a 100% homegrown one.

We should also build for ourselves of have built for us a large observatory somewhere in that their modest facilities in Abuja. The aim being to give the place a spacey feel and to facilitate interest among young Nigerians (school trips, and primary school projects and all that).



http://www.asdnews.com/data_news/ID44776_600.jpg

I can't help but laff. Using satellite to monitor fud production blah blah? D people r hungry yet dem dey waste money for stupid nd irrelevant space programs. And dis is coming frm a country dat cannot even refine it's oil. ** Walks away**

Point of correction, Nigerian engineers assisted in building nigeriasat-2 and INDEPENDENTLY built nigeriasat-x.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzKKJbmr9EU

Nigeria's NigcomSat 1R satellite launch

That's wat I call progress. I could remember an interesting course we took in my final year (Remote sensing and Photogeology), I nor too understand am well sha but d importance of Our Satelite cannot be over emphasized if only those in d nasrda could utilize the importance of this satellites imagery cos with this satelites, we can delineate flood plains, detect movements of arms, monitor relative changes in the country and carry out mineral explorations. Although the satellite needs improvements in terms of spartial, spectral resolution

ProminentStar: I just joined nairaland. please how do I comment on threads?

What did u just do. I think am replying to your comment.


Please how can I reply to comments?

ProminentStar: I just joined nairaland. please how do I comment on threads?

u just did.