Mekelle University is found at the town of Mekelle in Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia, at a distance of 783 Kilometers from the Ethiopian capital. The College of Natural and Computational Sciences of Mekelle University had marked up the first Ethiopian Space Science Society branch opening in Mekelle by hosting a seminar entitled “Does Ethiopia need Space Science and Technology?”  on June 16, 2014 at its Main Campus with an Honorary guest ato Tefera Walwa (Tefera Walwa, the founder of the ESSS and Board Chairman of the Entoto Observatory and Research Center (EORC)