Space Newcomers

Joining India's mission to Mars, that has been sending back data since September, 2014, are eight satellites, three built in Algeria, that India launched into different orbits on September 26, 2016.

     Nigeria has launched five satellites into orbit and plans to send an astronaut into space by 2030.

     From French Guiana on September 14, 2016, Peru launched a French-built satellite to monitor weather and internal security.

     Brazil is assembling its sixth satellite to be launched on a Chinese rocket by December, 2018.

(For earlier news about space activity, see the post, "Space Explorers.")