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The Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite-1, the African nation s first satellite, has been handed over to its Ethiopian operators, according to the China Academy of Space Technology, which designed and built the spacecraft.
A delivery ceremony was held earlier this month in Beijing with participants from both countries, it said in a statement.
Ethiopian Ambassador to China Teshome Toga Chanaka said at the ceremony that thanks to the Chinese government s wholehearted support and the project team s hard work, the Ethiopian people now own their first satellite.
Through the ETRSS-1 project, he said, Ethiopia now has a great deal of remote-sensing images to facilitate the analysis of climate change. A lot of Ethiopian youngsters have started learning about space activities, and some of them have become satellite operations or climate change research professionals after taking training sessions offered by China.