The first Angolan satellite called AngoSat-1 was launched on December 26, 2017, from platform 45 of the Cosmodrome of Baikonur. It has recently emerged that satellite has problems with the power supply.
After this information has circulated in local and international averages, there is a great silence on the part of our authorities, increasing the number of rumors and making the general public do not know the real situation of the satellite.
What is the current status of AngoSat-1?
One of the sources of the technical universe of the country, which has accompanied this matter in step and step, assured the newspaper Correio Angolense that the silence that reigns on the subject only indicates that the Angosat-1 is even going through serious technical setbacks that can irrevocably jeopardize it.
According to the same source, they will be well beyond the anomalies with the satellite power supply that were reported by the Russian space company RSC Energia. Already Vladimir Solntsev (Director of the company that led the consortium responsible for the construction of the satellite), came to inform that this energy deficit would have led the Russians to put the device in energy saving mode.
What could be happening?
Taking into account the current situation of the satellite, the source says that what must be said in down-to-earth language is that suffered by Angosat-1 put him. Probably already after the first failure occurred immediately after its launch in orbit using the Ukrainian rocket Zenit-3SLB. That is, the space device did not stop at the predicted reference position and ended up being out of contact zone, and the chances of recovery are quite remote.
In general, it can be concluded that Angosat-1 is at serious risk of being permanently lost. “The Russians did not say so openly. But the most trivial and common analogy that can be done to understand what really happened with Angosat-1 after its launch, would be to compare it, for example, to an aircraft that fails to land and crashes ”, and for the most part we already knew what consequences this could have.
