The deployment of two low-earth-orbit nano satellites launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket on March 4 marked Mongolia’s entry into the global space industry. The Cubesat satellites, named Ondosat-Owl-1 and Ondosat-Owl-2—carrying amateur radio payloads and built by Mongolian satellite provider Ondo Space—are the East Asian country’s first satellites. Mongolia, meanwhile, is in discussions with SpaceX to potentially launch the country’s first high-orbit national satellite, under construction at France’s Thales Alenia Space. Commenting on the success with the “nano sats”, achieved as the sate…