Mongolia is expected to launch its first satellite in the spring of 2017, said the members of the ‘Birds Project’ team during their meeting with Deputy PM U.Khurelsukh on Wednesday (5^th of October). The satellite is named ‘Mazaalai’ after the endangered Mongolian Gobi bear.

Scientists from Ghana, Japan, Bangladesh and Nigeria are working with Mongolian scholars to launch satellite. The team members also shared their plans to launch a second satellite in 2019.

Due to the devaluation of the national currency in recent months, the project requires an additional MNT 100 million. The Government of Mongolia have decided to offset the cost from the 2017 budget.