South Africa ordered, cancelled Russian spy satellite — report
Submit on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 06:00
When Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov last January said the Russian defence ministry refused to launch South Africa’s SumbandilaSat because the country “refused to use our satellite,” nobody really knew what he meant. It wouldn’t have been the first translation error in an English-language report by a Russian news agency, anyway. Now a South African newspaper reports that the country had indeed ordered a spy satellite from Russia — and later cancelled that order.
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