Africa is about to launch its first private satellite.
Scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016, the launch will make MEDO, or the Meta Economic Development Organization, the first private company in Africa to build a satellite and send it into orbit.
It’s a unique achievement for two reasons: firstly, South Africa (where the company is based) has only ever sent three satellites into space. And secondly, the engineers designing the satellites aren’t veteran astrophysicists, as you might expect – they’re teenage school girls.

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