The Unlikely Story Behind Mauritius’ First Satellite and the DIY Engineer Who Made It Happen
An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about unequal...
Peter Timko is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and a member of the ARIES project (Anthropological Research into the Imaginaries and Exploration of Space). His research looks at the various ways people and communities around the world relate to space, the future, and the contemporary space economy. Follow him on the social platform X @oort_crowd.
An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about unequal...