Senegal made history in 2024. The small Western African country joined the space race by launching its first satellite, GaindéSAT-1A, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 116 satellites into orbit.
While the development of the tiny spacecraft is a proud movement for Senegal, it also represents Africa's growing ambitions in space technology, which was previously believed to be beyond the continent's capabilities.
As it stands, 19 African countries have defined (or are defining) national space programmes, some of which are party to space tr
