Me to, maybe this is the manifestation of affirmative action but for space. Its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States.
While Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo applauded the launch and congratulated the team directly, the project did not receive official Ghanaian government support, according to Damoah. Instead, Japan’s national space agency, JAXA, provided the bulk of the resources and training to develop the satellite.
In other words, this is also mostly a Japanese-US effort too.