🚀Morocco launches first spy satellite, gets strategic boost .
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has launched its first observation satellite, to be used for military activities, surveillance of its borders and coastline and monitoring desertification in the region.
The Mohammed VI-A satellite was launched Wednesday from Kourou, French Guiana, in the presence of prominent Moroccan figures.
It will be piloted from an operating center near the capital, Rabat.
The launch service provider Arianespace says that it will be used for mapping activities, spatial planning, monitoring of agricultural activities, prevention and management of natural disasters and monitoring of environmental developments.
The satellite was built by Airbus Defense & Space and Thales Alenia Space. seattlepi.com
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Arianespace’s Vega launcher performs its eighth mission at the service of Earth observation – Arianespace
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