Kyrgyzstan's First Satellite to Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9

Kyrgyzstan is set to launch its first national satellite into low Earth orbit on October 1 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California. President Sadyr Japarov is in Los Angeles for the launch. The roughly five-kilogram spacecraft was developed over two and a half years by about 10 Kyrgyz engineers.

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