Singapore's first satellite to launch today

• Clivebenss

  20 Apr 11, 10:56

  Apr 20, 2011 - Straits Times

  It'll blast off on Indian rocket and take photos to measure soil erosion

  By Jermyn Chow

  
  

  SINGAPORE will finally head to space this afternoon, after a series of stops and starts that lasted more than four years.

  
  

  The Republic's first locally-built micro-satellite will blast off on an Indian rocket at 12.42pm, Singapore time, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, barring last-minute hitches.

• the Bear

  20 Apr 11, 11:05

  maybe the satellite can help map Singapore and tell us why the hell our "boundaries" keep being changed every few years