The Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite-1, or ETRSS-1, was sent into space by a Long March 4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province. The China Academy of Space Technology, which designed and made ETRSS-1, said the agreement on the satellite program was signed by the two governments in October 2016. It said the program had become a good example of developing countries' cooperation in climate change research and would help to boost Ethiopia's economic development and space technology. Getahun Mekuria, Ethiopia's minister of innovation and technology, said his country's need for the satellite had been "very urgent". Ethiopia wants to cooperate with China in other areas of space technology, including a communication satellite system, navigation and positioning satellite system and manned space missions, he said.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2019 00:22 UTC