Tunisia's first satellite is about to reach the stars
The entrance to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from where the Tunisian Challenge One satellite is to be launched.
RFI / Simon Rozé
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For the first time, a 100% Tunisian satellite will take off this Saturday at 7:07 am Paris time, 6:07 am UTC, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It is a technological demonstrator.
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It is called Challenge One and is barely 30 centimeters long, but its symbolic value is high.
It is indeed the first satellite entirely developed in Tunisia, with the Telnet group in charge.
Dedicated to the Internet of Things, Challenge One is what we call a technical demonstrator.
Its use will therefore not be accessible to the general public: it aims to test the effectiveness of a technology.
To put it into orbit, Telnet called on a sure bet: the Soyuz launcher from the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
For the occasion, the machine will abandon its traditional gray and orange livery for white and blue.
This is also a symbol, since it is a tribute to the Vostok1 rocket of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space whose flight took place 60 years ago.
For its mission, Challenge One will not be the only one on board, since 18 other satellites will be part of the trip from the mythical Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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