Ecuador to launch first domestically produced satellite

Ecuador will send its first domestically produced satellite into orbit in late April from a launch centre in China, said the Andean nation's President Rafael Correa. "At the end of the month, the first Ecuadorian satellite will be launched, not a satellite bought from a foreign country (but) a satellite made in Ecuador," Correa said in his weekly radio address Saturday. He noted that the initiative was carried out by the Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency, which is headed by the country's first astronaut, Ronnie Nader. More

(Source: Newstrack India - Apr 16)