The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) is a Kenyan State Corporation under the Ministry of Defence which was established through the Legal Notice No. 22 of 7 March 2017 and is mandated to promote, coordinate and regulate Space related activities in the country.
A satellite is a body or object that moves around a larger body.
Kenya's space program began in the early 60s at the Luigi Broglio Space Centre in Malindi. Over the years, over 20 sounding rockets and nine satellites have been launched from the Malindi Space Centre.
A sounding rocket is a rocket that carries instruments and performs scientific experiments during its flight.
Taifa 1 is Kenya’s first operational earth observation satellite designed and developed by a team of Kenyan engineers. It is an optical satellite with two imagers for its primary and secondary missions designed to deliver panchromatic and multispectral imageries respectively. The nanosatellite will be operational for 5 years and support environmental monitoring, climate monitoring and mitigation, food security through crop condition and monitoring, and disaster management among others.