Luxembourg launches satellite and will support Cape Verde in space defense – Medafrica Times

Luxembourg will support Cape Verde in space defense, as part of a satellite that the European country will launch later this year, hoping to improve surveillance and patrolling of the archipelago’s territorial waters, it was announced yesterday. The announcement was made in Praia by the Minister of State and Defence of Cape Verde, Janine Lélis, and by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, François Bausch, who began an official two-day visit to the Cape Verdean archipelago. The Luxembourgian Minister of Defense, Mobility and Public Works also revealed that his country will launch a satellite later this year and that it w…