[News] Tunisia becomes the first Maghreb country to launch a 100% local satellite

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The rocket took off Monday morning from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, followed live from Tunis by Tunisian President Kaïs Saied, who joined engineers and journalists at TelNet headquarters. "Our real wealth is the youth who can face obstacles," said Kais Saied, stressing that Tunisia, entangled in a social and political crisis, did not lack resources but "national will". "We are proud of our youth" and Tunisian brains "around the world," he said.It's a small step for aerospace but a big step for Tunisia: the first homemade satellite was launched into space on Monday March 22, opening up new local perspectives to young Tunisian engineers who are expatriating in large numbers. . Tunisia is the first country of the Maghreb, and the sixth African country, to manufacture its own satellite, after in particular South Africa, Egypt or Ghana, according to the specialized site Space in Africa. "Challenge One", intended for the Internet of Things (the ecosystem of connected objects), was built by a team from the Tunisian telecommunications group TelNet, most of whose engineers, trained locally, are between 25 and 30 years old.

The rocket took off Monday morning from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, followed live from Tunis by Tunisian President Kaïs Saied, who joined engineers and journalists at TelNet headquarters. "Our real wealth is the youth who can face obstacles," said Kais Saied, stressing that Tunisia, entangled in a social and political crisis, did not lack resources but "national will". "We are proud of our youth" and Tunisian brains "around the world," he said.