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Sri Lanka's first satellite set for April launch
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Feb, 2019
Sri Lanka will launch its first satellite into space in April, marking
its entry into the space age, said an official here on Wednesday.
To
be named RAAVANA-1, it is a research satellite built by two Sri Lankan
students from the University of Peradeniya and the Arthur C Clarke
Institute for Modern Technologies.
It was designed and built at
the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and is 1,000 cubic cm in
size and weighs 1.1 kg, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to
the Sri Lankan media, RAAVANA-1 was handed over to the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency on February 18 and will be launched to the
International Space Station on April 17, through the assistance of
Cygnus-1, an US spacecraft.
It is expected to fulfil five missions, including capturing pictures of Sri Lanka and its surrounding regions.
The RAAVANA-1 is expected to orbit 400 km away from earth and will have a lifespan of one and half years.
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