Does South Africa have a working synthetic aperture radar satellite?

David Maynier, the DA shadow defence and military veterans minister, will not be flavour of the month in the Defence Ministry and particularly its Defence Intelligence component.

This after he asked pointed questions about the launch of a Kondor-E earth observation satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the third week of December.

“Roscosmos announced the launch of a Kondor-E at 06h43 (South African time) on December 19. The launch was initially scheduled for 06h55 (South African time) on December 18 but was reportedly delayed due to technical reasons.

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