Nigeria has launched the first satellite designed and built by Africans. The NigeriaSat-X is one of two Earth observation satellites that the country recently launched. These are Nigeria's third and fourth satellites.
尼日利亚发射了第一颗由非洲人民自己设计和建造的卫星。这颗尼日利亚卫星-X是该国最近发射的两颗地球观测卫星中的一颗。这分别是他们的第三和第四颗卫星。
The NigeriaSat-X is the result of a training agreement between the National Space Research and Development Agency and a company called Surrey Satellite Technology. Twenty-six Nigerian engineers attended a training program over an eighteen-month period at the satellite developer’s offices in the United Kingdom.
这颗X卫星是国家太空研发机构和萨里卫星技术公司达成的培训协议的成果。在联合王国的卫星开发人员办事处，26位尼日利亚工程师参加了一项长达一年半的的培训项目。
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STEVE YOUNG: “You are now beginning to train a corps of very experienced engineers, high-technology technicians, and people who are going to benefit the wider economy. That also is a very good effect that the Nigerians get in investing in high-tech programs. They've got to develop their economy, and that's one of the ways they do that is by doing this.”
他还称：“你们正开始训练一批富有经验的工程师，懂得高科技的技术家和那些将在更多经济领域创造利益的人民。那也是尼日利亚着手在高科技项目上投资的良好结果。他们不得不发展经济，而这正是他们发展经济的一种出路。
