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Canadian company to build Azerspace-2

21 October 2015 12:00 (UTC+04:00)
Canadian company to build Azerspace-2

By Nigar Orujova

Space Systems/Loral, a leading provider of commercial satellites, won a tender to build the second telecommunications satellite of Azerbaijan entitled Azerspace-2, Azerbaijan’s satellite operator Azercosmos reported.

Subsidiary of Canada’s MDA corporation, SSL is based in Palo Alto, California.

The satellite design is based on the highly reliable SSL 1300 satellite platform that provides the flexibility for a broad range of applications and technology advances.

The second satellite program will be financed with long-term and concessional loan from Export Development Canada.

Azerspace-2 is scheduled for launch in late 2017-early 2018. Work on the installation of ground station equipment must be completed no later than 2017, and the ready satellite shipped to the launch site before the end of 2017.

The satellite will be placed in an orbital position of 45 degrees east longitude and will be leased by Azerbaijan side from the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, which will have rights to 45.9 percent of satellite resources.

The service area of Azerspace-2 will cover Europe, South-East Asia, Middle East and Africa.

The geostationary satellite Azerspace-2 will be equipped with Ku- and Ka-band transponders designed to provide digital broadcasting, Internet access, data transmission, creation of VSAT multi-service networks, and other services.

Azerbaijan entered the space club less than two years ago with the launch of the first Azerbaijani telecommunications satellite Azerspace-1, that provide such services as digital television, data transmission, VSAT multi-service networks, and governmental communications.

Azerspace-1 covers the countries of Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Moreover, Azercosmos operates the low-earth-orbit satellite AzerSky.

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Nigar Orujova is AzerNews’s staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @o_nigar

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