With a passion for knowledge and a dream for conquering space, 36 engineers of the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) have overcome difficulties to successfully manufacture a microsatellite after five years of hard efforts at leading Japanese universities. Their first product, MicroDragon, has been launched into space, bringing with it the intellect and space conquest aspiration of young Vietnamese people. Following the launch of MicroDragon in January 2019, Vietnam plans to launch the NanoDragon satellite in 2020. The 50-kilogram MicroDragon was sent into orbit aboard a Japanese rocket and is tasked with observing, taking photos and monitoring the quality of coastal water to serve the fishery industry. The satellite is also designed to detect cloud coverage to help with atmospheric correction, and receive and transmit signals between two distant locations on earth. With MicroDragon, Vietnam can improve its capacity in natural disaster prevention and climate change mitigation. In ...
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