Several mining, oil and agricultural companies have already benefited from technological solutions coming from Angosat-2, where they use images from this satellite to support the monitoring of their economic activities.
One of the innovative solutions is the TECH-MINAS platform, which is included in the Top 100 of the best projects in the world of artificial intelligence, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which allows companies in the sector to locate minerals accurately, generate alerts and monitor industry activity.
According to the technician from the GGPEN Market Studies Department, Hugo do Nascimento, another solution that is being well used by various institutions is TECH-AGRO, which is available for monitoring and mapping cultivation areas, automatic identification of the type of cultivation and estimation of harvest productivity.
Given the availability of these technological solutions on the national market, it is proven, once again, that ANGOSAT-2 is in the commercial phase and is being used to provide telecommunications services to national operators, revealed minister Mário Oliveira.
"The creation of the respective platforms is one of the most evident examples that ANGOSAT-2 is at the service of the Angolan nation and companies operating in Angola. We have a group of national operators that already provide communication services via the Angolan Satellite, which is working normally like any satellite operating in the world.”, he assured.
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Angosat-2 was launched on October 12, 2022, in Russia, being an Executive project that is part of the National Space Program, with the aim of reducing the digital divide in Angola and the African continent, allowing the expansion of telecommunications services to the most remote areas at competitive prices.
The satellite supports a series of services, covering the African continent, with greater emphasis on the Southern region and a significant part of Southern Europe.
Its transmission capacity is seven times greater than the first Angolan Satellite (ANGOSAT-1), having six “transponders” in Band C, 24 in Band KU and, as a novelty, a retransmitter in Band KA, against 16 “transponders” ” (relays) in the C Band and six in the KU Band of the previous device, launched unsuccessfully in 2017, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Russia.
As a High Transmission Rate (HTS) satellite, it provides 13 gigabytes in each illuminated region (areas within the satellite's signal range), based on the Eurostar-3000 platform, with approximately 15 years of useful life.
ANGOSAT-2 began construction on April 28, 2018, at the Airbus facilities in France, where the satellite's entire payload was installed, a component that allows its operation.
