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Ghana joins space industry – launches Space Science and Technology center
He said new areas such as nanotechnology and harnessing solar and wind energy for development would also be pursued.
Ghana will also like to use space science and technology in adopting more scientific approaches to the management of natural resources such as forests, land and mineral resources more efficiently.
It will also serve in risk assessment, mitigation and preparedness for disaster management in all natural phenomena.
The technology is expected to help the country in environmental management through observation with some home-grown satellites and technologies for climate change mitigation, health and safety, navigation, communications, meteorological monitoring and early warning, defense and national security.
A renowned Ghanaian physicist and mathematician, Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey, who formulated the technique used to determine matter in outer space, said the long-term goal was for Ghana to develop its own space science and technology facilities to be able to access and exploit them.
He believed that the initiative would go a long way to revolutionize several aspects of the nation’s development, including education, security, communication, science and technology, road construction and maintenance, transport, industry, agriculture and health.
Source: The Africa Review
