<Ul> <Li> NigeriaSat - 1 is a satellite of the standard Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) design . It has 100 kg mass and carries an optical imaging payload developed by SSTL to provide 32 m ground resolution with an exceptionally wide swath width of over 640 km . The payload uses green, red and near infrared bands equivalent to Landsat TM+ bands 2, 3 and 4 . Images are stored in a 1 - gigabyte solid - state data recorder and returned via an 8 - Mbit / s S - band downlink . NigeriaSat - 1 can image scenes as large as 640 x 560 km, providing unparalleled wide - area, medium - resolution data . The data will be used within Nigeria to monitor pollution, land use and other medium - scale phenomena . Launched on 27 September 2003 . </Li> <Li> NigeriaSat - 2 and NigeriaSat - X with 300 kg mass each - to replace NigeriaSat - 1, commenced November 6, 2006, launched 17 August 2011 . </Li> <Li> NigComSat - 1 Communications satellite providing rural internet access - launched on 13 May 2007, aboard a Chinese Long March 3B carrier rocket, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China . The satellite was the second Nigerian satellite to be placed into orbit . On 10 November 2008 (0900 GMT), the satellite was reportedly switched off, because it lost both of its solar arrays . The satellite is a total loss . The satellite was owned and operated by Nigerian Communication Satellite limited, an SPV, incorporated as a state owned enterprise, fully funded and owned by Federal Government of Nigeria . NigComSat Limited is currently being supervised by the Newly created Ministry of communications Technology and regulated by NCC and NBC . </Li> <Li> NigComSat - 1R - to replace the lost NigComSat - 1, launched by China on 19 December 2011 with no cost to Nigeria . </Li> </Ul> <Li> NigeriaSat - 1 is a satellite of the standard Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) design . It has 100 kg mass and carries an optical imaging payload developed by SSTL to provide 32 m ground resolution with an exceptionally wide swath width of over 640 km . The payload uses green, red and near infrared bands equivalent to Landsat TM+ bands 2, 3 and 4 . Images are stored in a 1 - gigabyte solid - state data recorder and returned via an 8 - Mbit / s S - band downlink . NigeriaSat - 1 can image scenes as large as 640 x 560 km, providing unparalleled wide - area, medium - resolution data . The data will be used within Nigeria to monitor pollution, land use and other medium - scale phenomena . Launched on 27 September 2003 . </Li> <Li> NigeriaSat - 2 and NigeriaSat - X with 300 kg mass each - to replace NigeriaSat - 1, commenced November 6, 2006, launched 17 August 2011 . </Li> <Li> NigComSat - 1 Communications satellite providing rural internet access - launched on 13 May 2007, aboard a Chinese Long March 3B carrier rocket, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China . The satellite was the second Nigerian satellite to be placed into orbit . On 10 November 2008 (0900 GMT), the satellite was reportedly switched off, because it lost both of its solar arrays . The satellite is a total loss . The satellite was owned and operated by Nigerian Communication Satellite limited, an SPV, incorporated as a state owned enterprise, fully funded and owned by Federal Government of Nigeria . NigComSat Limited is currently being supervised by the Newly created Ministry of communications Technology and regulated by NCC and NBC . </Li>

African countries that have launched satellites into space