The All Nations University College located in Koforidua, Ghana, is pleased to announce the school’s plans of sending its very first satellite into space. The spacecraft, called CANSAT, will be used to encourage potential students who plan on pursuing a career in the Space Science and Satellite Technology program the university began offering in 2012.
The Intelligent Space System Laboratory of the university, which built the first satellite of Ghana, was built as an educational project to support the collaboration and integration between engineering and science programs, and also to promote teamwork. In order to achieve such goals, the students of All Nations University worked on the CANSAT project, giving students practical training in conceptualizing the mission, planning and designing the satellite, and eventually building and testing it. The university lab is also working on putting up a satellite ground station for research purposes.
Space Science Ghana director Ashievi Kofi encouraged the nation’s government to financially support the university’s program, believing that it will help enhance the economic development of the country.
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