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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigeria is to launch Africa’s first nanosatellite (an artificial satellite with a wet mass between one and 10 kg 2.2–22 lb) into the orbit, the Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Prof Seidu Mohammed, has said. Mohammed told journalists in New York that the Nigeria’s nanosatellite would be launched alongside four other countries between May 23 to May 27. The NASRDA chief disclosed that the nanosatellite would be launched “within the window of May 23 and 27” from the launch base at Miami, Florida, U.S. According to him, the latest satellite to be launched is another feat achieved by the Nigerian engineers. Mohammed said: “Nigeria, along with other four countries – Japan, Ghana, Bangladesh and Nepal – in the last one year, came together to work in a constellation to build about five nanosatellites. “You may ask ‘what are these nanosatellites for?’ It’s a scientific satellite that is to study environmental parameters. “T...