African nations are building their own small satellites for a fraction of past prices to watch crops, track floods and guard borders.
Yet every one of them must still pay what industry insiders call a 'multi-million orbit tax' to foreign rockets and sometimes foreign operators to reach and stay i
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Royal Ibeh
Royal Ibeh is a senior journalist with years of experience reporting on Nigeria’s technology and health sectors. She currently covers the Technology and Health beats for BusinessDay newspaper, where she writes in-depth stories on digital innovation, telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and public health policies.
