Nepal & Sri Lanka Successfully Launches Their First Satellite into Space

Nepal & Sri Lanka Successfully Launches Their First Satellite into Space

• The first ever satellite of Sri Lanka and Nepal was successfully launched into space from NASA’s Flight Facility on Virginia’s East Shore in United States on April 18, 2019.
• Nepal’s satellite ‘NepaliSat-1’ and Sri Lanka’s satellite ‘Raavana-1’ along with Japan Satellite Uguisu were launched onboard Antares rocket.
• It is the part of the BIRDS-3 satellites project of the Japanese Kyushu Institute of Technology which has been designed in association with the United Nations to help countries launch their first satellite.
• NepaliSat-1 is a low orbit satellite developed by the Nepalese scientists to take photographs on a regular basis to gather geographical information of the country.
• Raavana-1 has been developed by  Sri Lankan research engineers to capture images of Sri Lanka and its neighbouring countries.
• With this, Sri Lanka and Nepal have also entered into the global space for having its own satellite.