NAM Satellites Five satellites have been launched by the Nigerian government into outer space . Early plans to launch a national satellite in 1976 were not executed. The NigeriaSat-1 was the first Nigerian satellite and built by a United Kingdom-based satellite technology company, Surrey Space Technology Limited (SSTL ltd) under the Nigerian government sponsorship for $30 million. The satellite was launched by Kosmos-3M rocket from Russian Plesetsk spaceport on 27 September 2003. Nigeriasat-1 was part of the worldwide Disaster Monitoring Constellation System. [ citation needed ] The primary objectives of the Nigeriasat-1 were: to give early warning signals of environmental disaster; to help detect and control desertification in the northern part of Nigeria; to assist in demographic planning; to establish the relationship between vectors and the environment that breeds malaria and to give early warning signals on future outbrea...
Bad News Sells Better Than Good News Here's the headline from a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers' press release: "U.S. Industrial Manufacturers Expect Lower Growth Rates for the Next 12 Months." Hmmm, that doesn't sound so good, does it? But when you drill down into the actual text of the ... Here's the headline from a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers' press release : "U.S. Industrial Manufacturers Expect Lower Growth Rates for the Next 12 Months." Hmmm, that doesn't sound so good, does it? But when you drill down into the actual text of the press release (which is publicizing a new study), what's really going on, and what could just as easily have been trumpeted in the headline, is this: "U.S. Industrial Manufacturers Expect Growth Rate of 5.7% for the Next 12 Months." It's curious that PWC chose to accentuate the negative in the headline rather than the positive. True, there is a downside to the story -- growth projections a...
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