Category: Exclusive
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Was it really Chichi’s Rocket? — Myth, Money, and the Satellite Nobody Funded … except for Manivanan the Entrepreneur
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in ExclusiveIt has been 13 years since Sri Lanka’s much-debated satellite launch — the project that entered national folklore as “Chichi’s Rocket” — yet the real story remains more tangled than the conspiracy theories it has generated. What happened was not a state-funded space programme. It was a private commercial venture dressed in political pageantry — and the politics has never let