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Deployment of Myanmar s first satellite under review due to coup

Mar 15, 2021 Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan’s space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said. The ¥1.7 billion satellite was built by Japan’s Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar’s government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU). It is the first of a set of two 50-kilogram microsatellites equipped with cameras designed to monitor agriculture and fisheries. Human rights activists and some officials in Japan worry that those cameras could be used for military purposes by the junta that seized power in Myanmar on Feb. 1.

Myanmar s first satellite held by Japan on space station after coup, reports say

Story highlights Japan has close ties to Myanmar and is one of its biggest aid donors. While condemning the violence, it has not taken as hard a stance against the coup as the United States and some other Western countries which have applied sanctions. Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, several reports have said. Japan has close ties to Myanmar and is one of its biggest aid donors. While condemning the violence, it has not taken as hard a stance against the coup as the United States and some other Western countries which have applied sanctions.

At least four killed as Myanmar protests continue

At least four killed as Myanmar protests continue DEFYING THE JUNTA: The US said it would offer legal residency to Burmese currently in the US, citing the coup and a deadly crackdown against demonstrators Reuters and AP, MANDALAY, Myanmar Security forces in Myanmar yesterday again met protests against last month’s military takeover with lethal force, killing at least four people by shooting live ammunition at demonstrators. Three deaths were reported in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city, and one in Pyay, a town in the south. There were multiple reports on social media of the deaths, along with photographs of dead and wounded people in both locations.

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