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Hoax: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
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01/30/2014 08:32 am »
I have very large doubts about this claim, but there are reports out there that Algeria will launch the ALSAT 3 satellite out of the good old pad at Hammaguir very soon (in fact the French report that I read puts the launch date as January 2014, i.e. this month as of early last month!).
Anyone have more details about this?
Source (in French):
http://www.lemag.ma/L-Algerie-deviendrait-une-puissance-spatiale-en-2014_a77933.html
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Re: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
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A bit of (French) discussion in this French spaceflight forum (the consensus is just as skeptical):
http://www.forum-conquete-spatiale.fr/t15412-lalgerie-sappreterait-a-lancer-une-fusee-dans-lespace
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Re: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
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http://www.almanar.com.lb/french/adetails.php?eid=143482&cid=76&fromval=1
This article says "before April".
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Re: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
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Algeria !?
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Re: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
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01/31/2014 10:32 am »
As far as I can see, the initial report was posted in the
strategika51 blog
in November 2013 and was copied to
several
other
blogs
by the same author. I can't see any other source cited. Some online media just copied the blog entries, but
Le Quotidien d'Algérie
declares it a year-end-joke with a nice picture of the rocket (while others simply
show a space shuttle
).
Appearantly, there was a similar
April fool's joke back in 2010
. The
2010 author was surprised
to see his prediction a few years later again, but this time not on April 1st, so not an obvious hoax.
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