US Edition
Published • loading... • Updated
A $11.4m debt puts Nigeria’s space ambitions at risk
Summary by TechCabal
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.1 Articles
1 Articles
A $11.4m debt puts Nigeria’s space ambitions at risk
A dispute over $11.4 million in unpaid fees has put Nigeria’s only operational communications satellite at risk of losing the technical support keeping it in orbit and revealed that the country has lacked direct control of the spacecraft for nearly seven years. Documents and interviews seen by TechCabal reveal that the NigComSat-1R satellite has reportedly been controlled from a ground station in China since 2018, after lightning destroyed Niger…
Coverage Details
Total News Sources1
Leaning Left0Leaning Right0Center0Last UpdatedBias DistributionNo sources with tracked biases.
Bias Distribution
- There is no tracked Bias information for the sources covering this story.
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
