{"id":69444,"date":"2022-11-14T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:12:49","slug":"satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Allows Us To See Our Country From Outer Space \u2013 Mnangagwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended the recent launch of the country\u2019s first satellite, Zimbabwe Satellite (ZimSat-1), saying it will enable the government to make timeous responses to disasters such as pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been criticised for prioritising space projects when it is failing to adequately fund health and education among other critical national needs.<\/p>\n<p>But Mnangagwa, writing in his column in the Sunday Mail, said the project will assist in disaster mitigation. He said:<\/p>\n<p>Many thought this was rank madness by some starry-eyed dreamers, was something well beyond our reach given the myriad challenges we grappled with at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Our infrastructure was broken, our economy was in a state of collapse and we endured long hours of power outages. Yet there we were, dreaming about participating in the space economy.<\/p>\n<p>ZimSat-1 allows us to see our country from outer space. We are also able to make key interventions in national health, including foreseeing pandemics in time for timeous responses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended the recent launch of the country\u2019s first satellite, Zimbabwe Satellite (ZimSat-1), saying it will enable the government to make timeous responses to disasters such as pandemics. The government has been criticised for prioritising space projects when it is failing to adequately fund health and education among other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12],"tags":[1493,2189,12671,19,12414],"class_list":{"0":"post-69444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-satellite","14":"tag-zimbabwe","15":"tag-zimsat-1"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Satellite Allows Us To See Our Country From Outer Space \u2013 Mnangagwa - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended the recent launch of the country\u2019s first satellite, Zimbabwe Satellite (ZimSat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Satellite Allows Us To See Our Country From Outer Space \u2013 Mnangagwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended the recent launch of the country\u2019s first satellite, Zimbabwe Satellite (ZimSat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-14T14:21:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-14T17:12:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668430318.53.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"858\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/satellite-allows-us-to-see-our-country-from-outer-space-mnangagwa\",\"name\":\"Satellite Allows Us To See Our Country From Outer Space \u2013 Mnangagwa - 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