Azerbaijan, Bulgaria to cooperate in satellite industry
By Nigar Abbasova
Azerbaijan, the leading country in the region for the development of the IT sector, may cooperate with Bulgaria in the satellite industry.
Bulgaria has expressed its interest in the use of the resources of Azerbaijan’s Azerspace-1 telecommunication satellite, which connects more than 50 countries in Central Asia, Europe, Africa and Middle East.
The sides signed a preliminary agreement on the cooperation in the sphere of satellite communication, in the course of the meeting of Azerbaijan-Bulgaria intergovernmental commission for trade, economy, scientific and technical cooperation.
The countries will also consider the perspectives of use of AzerSky low-altitude high-resolution Earth observation satellite. The satellite is expected to be used in the agricultural and ecologic sector of Bulgaria, as well as in the case of emergency situations.
Today, Azerbaijan’s national satellite operator Azercosmos provides telecommunication services through the Azerspace-1 satellite, launched on February 8, 2013.
The central control center of the satellite is located on the 37th kilometer of the Baku-Shamakhi highway, while the backup control center on the territory of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
Moreover, Azerbaijan, has already launched work on designing Azerspace-2 geostationary satellite, which is set up to provide digital broadcasting, Internet access, data transmission, creation of VSAT, and multi-service networks.
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