Conditions
As one of only a handful of equatorial states, Uganda is ideally sited for a spaceport to launch satellites into geostationary orbit, but this option has never been pursued because of political instability in the country. The closest regional facility, and the only one ever active in East Africa, is the Italian-owned Broglio Space Centre off of neighboring Kenya's coast.
Uganda has never acquired any ballistic missile capability, the usual precursor to booster development. The only state in Sub-Saharan Africa to ever do so was South Africa, which developed its own form of Shavit technology with Israel in the 1980s, but after democracy cancelled its nuclear weapons, and later its ballistic missile programs by 1993.
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