The first operational Kenyan Satellite was put into orbit Saturday by a rocket of the company SpaceX which took off from California. The launch, initially scheduled for Monday evening in the United States, had been postponed several times this week due to bad weather conditions. However, on Saturday, a Falcon-9 rocket of SpaceX took off at 06H48 GMT from the American base of Vandenberg, before deploying an hour later several tens of satellites, including the Kenyan Taifa-1 satellite. Designed and developed by a team of Kenyan researchers, the satellite will provide data in the areas of agriculture and environmental monitoring in Kenya, valuable for the future of this East African country currently experiencing a historic drought.

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