
Sri Lanka's first satellite 'Raavana 1' will be launched into space at 2.16 am tomorrow, marking Sri Lanka’s entry into the gliobal space age.The BIRDS-3 satellites from Japan, Nepal and Sri Lanka had been taken to International space station (ISS) as a cargo and had been boarded onto Antares rocket, which will carry the Cygnus cargo spacecraft . The satellites will be launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s East Shore.