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Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9

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395 points vinnyglennon | 1 comments | 26 Mar 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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blobbers ◴[26 Mar 25 21:58 UTC] No.43487874[source]▶
… this does not seem like their best use of resources.
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martinky24 ◴[26 Mar 25 22:10 UTC] No.43488011[source]▶
Can you expand on this? I'm curious how you think these resources should be better allocated.

Make sure the same argument doesn't apply to any of the other countries with space assets!

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cooper_ganglia ◴[26 Mar 25 23:34 UTC] No.43488757[source]▶
24% of the country is malnourished and 4% of children die before their 5th birthday. This feels like misaligned priorities...

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/botswana.html

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1. panick21_ ◴[27 Mar 25 08:25 UTC] No.43491424[source]▶
How does a country move out of poverty without engineering and education? If Botswana had a moon program or its own rocket program, I could see the argument, but launching a small sat. Doesn't seem that wrong.