Local communications satellite is ready for delivery to the launch site

Yesterday the National Aviation Academy of Azerbaijan held its third meeting on space issues.

At the meeting, which was attended by a consultant of the space program in Azerbaijan, Academician Roald Sagdeev, Chairman of Azerkosmos Rashad Nabiyev said the first telecommunications satellite is fully ready to run. The head of the society also informed the participants about the current situation of the project implementation and training, work on registration and coordination of orbital positions and other

As previously reported by Turan, the satellite Azerspace-1 will be delivered to Kourou (north-east of South America, French Guiana) in late December. Its launch is scheduled for mid-February presumably next year.

The satellite manufacturer is Orbital Sciences Corporation (USA). Long-term lease with the Malaysian company MEASAT about using the orbital position of the satellite communications Azerspace-1 in orbital equipment operation will be carried out over 20 years. The costs will be paid off in about 7 years, and the rest of the operation will be bringing net income.

Experts have counted many advantages of such a satellite, including improving the quality and increasing the reliability of communication, involvement of regional consumers, the presence of many television and radio stations and so on. - 17D-