The Republic of Djibouti has launched its first satellite, Djibouti 1A. It took off last weekend from the Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard the SpaceX Transporter-9, a dedicated SSO rideshare mission carrying a variety of payloads into sun-synchronous orbit.
A sun-synchronous orbit is a type of polar orbit that enables a satellite to pass over the same part of the Earth at roughly…