page_title: GhanaSat-1
section_title: Launch
hierarchical_section_title: GhanaSat-1 / Mission / Launch
caption_attribution_description: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kenney Space Center in Florida, the company's 11th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 5:07 p.m. EDT from the historic launch site now operated by SpaceX under a property agreement with NASA. The Dragon spacecraft will deliver 6,000 pounds of supplies, such as the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, designed to study the extraordinary physics of these stars, providing insights into their nature and behavior. Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray NASA image use policy.
context_page_description: GhanaSat-1 was the first Ghanaian satellite to be launched into space. It was designed and built in two years in conjunction with the Kyushu Institute of Technology's Birds-1 program, which has the goal of helping countries build their first satellite.
  The satellite took images, collected atmospheric data, measured space radiation, and transmitted uploaded audio. GhanaSat-1 was launched to the International Space Station on a Falcon 9 rocket. It was released into space from the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer on the ISS on 7 July 2017 and was used to monitor environmental activities along Ghana's coastline. The satellite deorbited 22 May 2019.
context_section_description: SpaceX launched the satellite on its CRS-11 mission to the International Space Station on 3 June 2017. The satellite was carried in a Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. This was the 100th launch from Pad 39A and the first time SpaceX reused one of its Dragon capsules. This mission also carried CubeSats from Japan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Mongolia. The satellites from Bangladesh (BRAC Onnesha) and Mongolia (Mazaalai) are those countries' first satellites.
  GhanaSat-1 was released by a Japanese astronaut from the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer, located in the Japanese Kibō module of the International Space Station, on 7 July 2017. The satellite launch was broadcast live and watched by over 400 people at All Nations University. The satellite orbited the Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometres (250 mi) and at an inclination of 51.6 degrees, completing an orbit around the planet every 92 minutes at a velocity of 7.67 kilometres per second (17,200 mph).
caption: SpaceX launch of CRS-11 with GhanaSat-1 onboard
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