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Nairobi City. Sub-county. Dagoretti. Time zone. UTC+3. Riruta, also known as Riruta Satellite, is a settlement in the Dagoretti area of Nairobi. It is approximately 9.4 kilometres (5.8 mi) west of the central business district of Nairobi. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] PC Kinyanjui Technical Training Institute, a public, technical institute is located in Riruta.
6,405 km 2 (2,473 sq mi) Exclusive economic zone. 116,942 km 2 (45,152 sq mi) A United Nations map of Kenya. Location of Kenya. The Geography of Kenya is diverse, varying amongst its 47 counties. Kenya has a coastline on the Indian Ocean, which contains swamps of East African mangroves. Inland are broad plains and numerous hills.
Topo map: Mount Kenya by Wielochowski and Savage [2] [3]: Geology; Mountain type: Stratovolcano (extinct): Last eruption: 2.6–3.1 MYA: Climbing; First ascent: 13 September 1899 by Mackinder, Ollier, and Brocherel, although the peoples of Kenya believed God (Ngai in Gikuyu) resided on this mountain and regularly ascended the peaks to perform spiritual rites.
The Luigi Broglio Space Center (BSC) located near Malindi, Kenya, is an Italian Space Agency (ASI) Spaceport. It was named after its founder and Italian space pioneer Luigi Broglio. [ 1 ] Developed in the 1960s through a partnership between the Sapienza University of Rome 's Aerospace Research Centre and the National Aeronautics and Space ...
The first satellite launched from Kenya's soil was in 1970. The satellite, named Uhuru, was equipped to study celestial X-ray astronomy. [citation needed] Kenya was involved in the launching of the San Marco Malindi satellites. Discussions for a space center began in 1983, but stalled. [1]
1KUNS-PF (1st Kenyan University NanoSatellite-Precursor Flight) was the first Kenyan-owned satellite. [3] [4] The cubesat was developed and assembled by the University of Nairobi for the Kenya Space Agency, with technical support provided by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Kenya has participated in the Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) project, which is a platform containing 17 years of satellite imagery and Earth Observation data. The data is currently available for Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania and is used to address salient issues relating to agriculture, food security, deforestation ...
Lake Bogoria. Lake Bogoria (formerly Lake Hannington) is a saline, alkaline lake that lies in a volcanic region in a half- graben basin south of Lake Baringo, Kenya, a little north of the equator. Lake Bogoria, like Lake Nakuru, Lake Elementeita, and Lake Magadi further south in the Rift Valley, and Lake Logipi to the north, is periodically ...