{"id":81655,"date":"2018-08-11T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T04:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/african-space-programs-will-boost-development-with-satellite-data"},"modified":"2018-08-11T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T04:02:52","slug":"african-space-programs-will-boost-development-with-satellite-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/african-space-programs-will-boost-development-with-satellite-data","title":{"rendered":"African space programs will boost development with satellite data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/african-space-programs-will-boost-development-with-satellite-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/on\/space-business\/\">space adventures<\/a> of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand the future of business and industry here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets and space are increasingly important to Africa, where <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1275698\/kenya-to-launch-first-satellite-into-space\/\">more countries<\/a> have been partnering to launch or are launching their own satellites. Still, discussions here remain more prosaic than determining how soon we\u2019ll be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40112-elon-musk-mars-colony-world-war-3.html\"> colonizing Mars<\/a> or sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/jeff-bezos-shoots-for-the-moon-2018-08-10\">industrial operations to the moon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The satellites launched by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflight.com\/spaceflight-prepares-historic-launch-of-more-than-70-spacecraft-aboard-spacex-falcon-9\/\">SpaceX<\/a> are smaller than ever before. Powerful nano-satellites, the size of soccer balls, are able to deliver detailed imagery and information about a chosen territory from space. These advances in technology and cheaper launch vehicles mean more developing countries can use satellites to collect troves of valuable data.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1343132\/african-space-programs-will-boost-development-with-satellite-data\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/africa\/1343132\/african-space-programs-will-bo...lite-data\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fascinating space adventures of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are essential viewing for anyone seeking to understand the future of business and industry here on Earth. Rockets and space are increasingly important to Africa, where more countries have been partnering to launch or are launching their own satellites. Still, discussions here remain more prosaic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}