Author Topic: Hoax: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?  (Read 3612 times)

Offline Galactic Penguin SST

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
« Last Edit: 01/31/2014 01:56 pm by input~2 »
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Offline Galactic Penguin SST

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?
« Reply #3 on: 01/31/2014 10:11 am »
Algeria !? :o
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Re: Algeria may launch a satellite by itself very soon?
« Reply #4 on: 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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