Roscosmos plans to launch satellite for Angola in September
Russian and Angola agreed to build the Angosat-2 satellite to replace the lost Angosat-1 satellite, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 26, 2017
Launch of the Angosat-2 satellite for Angola is planned for the the first third of September, a source in Russian space industry told TASS.
Russian and Angola agreed to build the Angosat-2 satellite to replace the lost Angosat-1 satellite, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 26, 2017. Communication with the satellite was lost the next day. The new satellite will be designed and built by Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems.
Earlier, the enterprise sent a payload module for a telecommunication satellite to Airbus. The module includes relay equipment that provide communications and broadcast in C and Ku frequency bands.
