Summary Ghanaian college students plan to launch a model of a satellite the size of a Coke can into the air.
KOFORIDUA (AP) Organizers hope that it will be the start of this West African country s space program.
A main goal of the project is to bolster interest among students for Ghana s space program, which is behind those in several other sub-Saharan African countries, notably powerhouses Nigeria and South Africa.
Experts say Ghana is probably a good five years or more from developing its own operational satellites, which could one day be used to confront everything from natural disasters to the smuggling of natural resources.
Wednesday s project, though, starts with just a big balloon to carry aloft the miniature model of a satellite, known as a Deployable CanSat.
