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Space programs and missions · A guided course
From a national satellite to useful, validated information
Explore Taifa-1’s Kenyan and Bulgarian engineering partnership, image sampling, cloud-limited observations and the work needed to turn a satellite product into a useful decision.
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A natural-color Landsat 8 OLI view of Lake Baringo, Kenya, acquired on 1 May 2020 and published by NASA Earth Observatory. NASA’s complete detail view, labels and scale bar are retained. This earlier observation illustrates a Kenyan information need; it is not Taifa-1 imagery or evidence of its camera performance.
NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey · Image source · Public domain — NASA / USGSYour place in the bigger picture
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A precursor mission that improved through ground stations, software and shared reception
Turn satellite signals into testable evidence
Taifa: Kenya’s Earth-observation mission
From a national satellite to useful, validated information
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