On October 12, 2022), the official launch into orbit of the AngoSat-2, an Angolan geostationary communication satellite, in the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, traveled 36.000 kilometers from the Earth's surface to geostationary orbit, where it should position itself. The Angolan satellite was put into orbit by the Proton-M rocket, from ramp 81.
Currently More and more African countries are sending satellites into space, we are talking about countries like Rwanda, Etiópia and the Ghana, etc. The objectives are multiple, from guaranteeing fast access to the internet, alerting to natural disasters and promoting the development of the continent.
How is the scenario on the African continent?
Angola occupies the 7th position in the list of African countries with a satellite with the recent launch of Angosat-2, after South Africa, the pioneer to detain a satellite on February 23, 1999, followed by Algeria (November 28, 2002), Nigeria (September 27, 2003), Egypt (April 17, 2007), Morocco (November 8, 2017) and Ghana (June 03, 2017), the 6th in the “ranking”, according to surveys by Jornal Mercado.
É It is also important to point out that, in 2017, the African Union adopted a space strategy, whose objective is to create a pan-African space agency, taking into account the specific needs of the continent. However, the organization awarded Egypt the contract for the agency's headquarters, which will be located in Cairo, to then start working with countries whose space programs are more developed, such as, for example, South Africa and Nigeria.
