Teenage girls have built Africa's first-ever private satellite

In May next year, Africa will launch its first-ever private satellite into space, to monitor the continent's shifting weather conditions. Unlike most private satellites out there, this one has mostly been built by 14 South African teenage girls, as part of a high school science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) boot camp. The students have designed and made the payload for the satellite, which will orbit over Earth's poles and scan the surface of the African continent. More

(Source: ScienceAlert - Nov 28)