Nepal’s First Ever Satellite Launched Into Space [Watch Video]

Nepal’s first satellite, ‘NepaliSat-1’, has been launched into space, which will quickly begin rotating around the earth’s orbit to collect information about the country’s topography and earth’s magnetic field. Meanwhile, officials said, the satellite itself will also be studied for developing more advanced satellites in the future.

NepaliSat-1 was once launched under the ‘Birds-3 satellite launch to International Space Station project’ at 2:31 am Wednesday by using the Antares rocket which carried the Cygnus cargo aircraft from the Virginia Air and Space Center of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The NepaliSat-1, developed by means of two Nepalis, Abhas Maskey and Hariram Shrestha, at Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology bears the Nepali flag and the logo of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. Similar satellites from Japan and Sri Lanka have been also launched alongside NepaliSat-1

According to the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, the satellite tv for pc is geared up with a 5-megapixel digicam to seize Nepal’s topography and a magnetometer to accumulate information related to the earth’s magnetic field.

“The satellite will first reach the International Space Station. It will then begin rotating around the earth after a month,” Suresh Kumar Dhungel, senior technical officer and spokesperson of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, told the Post.

The pix and statistics will be sent by the satellite tv for pc to the floor station at NAST, which is currently underneath construction.

“The floor station will be geared up before our satellite tv for pc starts rotating,” stated Dhungel. “We will also be capable to receive data from different satellites which have been and will be launched below the Birds project.”

Officials at NAST inform that the satellite will enable them to examine the method of sending and receiving data and information to and from space.

According to them, alongside with presenting pics and data, the launch of the satellite tv for pc marks the starting for Nepal to check its capability in space.

“The satellite will stay in the earth’s orbit for 12 months for the duration of which the satellite tv for pc will be intently studied,” stated Dhungel. “Since it is a studying phase, the find out about of the satellite will help us in creating more advanced satellites in the future.”

On Thursday, hours after the launch of the Nepali satellite tv for pc into space, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said in a tweet: “Though a humble beginning, with the launching of NepaliSat-1 Nepal, has entered the Space-Era. I wish to congratulate all these scientists and establishments that have been worried proper from the improvement to its launching thereby enhancing the status of our country.”

The total value from growing the satellite tv for pc to launching it and setting up the floor station is said to be Rs20 million which was provided with the aid of the government of Nepal via NAST.

A team of four engineering graduates is also working to launch some other Nepali satellite ‘Nepal PQ-1’ in 2020.

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