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Space X Astronauts Prepare for Docking at International Space Station
Producer : Nnei Opia Clark
A recycled SpaceX crew dragon capsule with four astronauts aboard was speeding on its way to the international space station, where the spacecraft is set to dock early Saturday.
This is the third crew sent to the ISS by SpaceX, as part of its multibillion dollar contract with NASA, and the first time the company was reusing a rocket and spacecraft.
The crew-2 mission, which includes the first European, Thomas Pesquet of France, blasted off from pad 39a at the Kennedy space center in Florida before dawn on Friday.
“we’re glad to be back in space,” said mission commander Shane Kimbrough of the united states.
The crew dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is expected to dock with the ISS at 5:10 am (0910 GMT) Saturday. the hatch will open two hours after that.
Flying on used vehicles is a key cost-saving goal of NASA’s partnerships with private industry.
Three white Teslas that whisked the astronauts to the launchpad bore license plates reading “recycle,” “reuse,” and “reduce” — a nod to the fact that both the falcon 9 booster and endeavour were deployed on previous missions.
SpaceX’s first crewed mission to the ISS launched last May, ending nine years of American reliance on Russian rockets for rides, following the end of the space shuttle program.
“I think we’re at the dawn of a new era of space exploration,” said SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who made a surprise appearance at the post-launch press conference.
The arrival of the space quartet — which also includes American Megan Mcarthur and Japan’s Akikho Hoshide — will bring the number of people on the station to 11, as the crew-2 team overlaps for a few days with crew-1 astronauts, in addition to three Russian Cosmonauts.
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain security agencies from accessing people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of law.
The civic society organization, in the suit which is yet to be assigned to a judge, is asking the court to determine “whether the approval for security agencies to access people’s personal details via the National Identification Number [NIN] without due process is consistent with the principles of legality, necessity, and proportionality.
The organization is also praying the court for an order setting aside President Buhari’s approval for security agencies to access people’s details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of law, as this amounts to violations of private and digital communication rights, right to family life, human dignity and personal liberty.”
It is further urging the court for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Federal Government or any other authority, persons or group of persons from unlawfully accessing people’s personal details via NIN-SIM linkage without due process of the law.
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Nigeria, Japan Launch I-Hatch Startup Incubation Programme to Develop Scalable Business Models
The Nigerian and Japanese governments have announced the launch of an idea hatch (i-hatch) startup incubator programme for bootcamps to develop scalable business models in Nigeria.
This was disclosed in a statement by the National Center for AI and robotics in Nigeria (NCAIR) alongside the Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Matsunaga Kazuyoshi with other dignitaries from the Japan International cooperation agency.
The programme is expected to focus on ICT innovations and entrepreneurship.
The organization said the Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa, hosted kazuyoshi alongside fellow dignitaries from the Japan International Cooperation Agency during the opening ceremony of Idea hatch (ihatch) startup incubation programme cohort one-2022.
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MTN Communications Nigeria Plc and Mafab Communications Limited, have made full payment of 273.6 million dollars each for the 5G Spectrum license to the Nigerian Communications Commission.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Umar Danbatta, confirmed the payment Thursday.
MTN Nigeria, Mafab Communications Ltd and Airtel Networks Ltd submitted bids with an initial bid deposit of 19.74 million dollars, representing 10 per cent of the reserve price by the close of the bid submission date of November 29, 2021.
The Commission said following the successful auction on December 13, 2021 and the emergence of MTN and Mafab as winners, they were required to pay the balance of the bid amount of $253.86 million on or before February 24, 2022.
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