SayariLabs and EnduroSat sign a commercial agreement to launch TAIFA-1 (“one nation” from Swahili), first Kenyan 3U software-defined NanoSat.
TAIFA-1 will get to orbit on SpaceX`s Falcon 9, the planned launch is scheduled for Q4 2022.
In the past decade East Africa has been hit with heavy droughts and wildfires, causing water crisis, and damages of local agriculture and food supplies. TAIFA-1 will be loaded with hyperspectral, Earth-observation camera that will empower customers with environmental, wildlife, agricultural monitoring, and land use mapping, in their mission of preventing the calamities in the region…
