O Angosat-2 is now ready to start its commercial process, a month and a half after launching into orbit, according to the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Mário Oliveira.
The minister who was speaking during a seminar to present the valences and benefits of the National Space Program, stressed that the final tests of the satellite have been concluded.
"The final tests of Angosat-2 were signed with the Russian side. Today the satellite is ours”, said Mário de Oliveira.
BUT: National technicians trained on how to work with Angosat-2
The event also served to present the various projects that are part of the National Space Programme, such as the benefits of ANGOSAT-2, the Satellite Mission and Control Center (MCC) and the space applications TECH-Gest, TECH-Agro and TECH-Ecology.
to inform that the Angosat-2 is an Angolan geostationary satellite that has been in orbit since 0:00 on the 13th of October, 7 hours after its launch, and that it is an important step in the cooperation relations between Angola and Russia, in addition to encouraging the holding, in the short term, the 6th session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the two countries, to take place at the end of the year, in Luanda.
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