REPORT: ARMENIA TO PURCHASE COMMERCIAL SATELLITE FROM RUSSIA
by: Jeffrey Hill
Satellite Today
July 9, 2012 Monday
The Armenian government is planning to order a commercial
communications satellite from Russia under the terms of a memorandum
of understanding signed July 9, according to a statement issued the
same day by Roscosmos Director Vladimir Popovkin.
Popovkin said Armenia’s first satellite would carry 15 transponders,
but that details of the satellite’s development and launch are still
being negotiated.
“A contract should be signed by year-end,” Popovkin said in a
statement.
Several Armenian news outlets reported that Armenian Prime Minister
Tigran Sargsyan discussed the satellite project with officials from
the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building in April.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank agreed to finance development of
Azerbaijan’s first national telecommunications satellite in 2011.
Arianespace slated the satellite for launch later this year on an
Ariane 5 ECA rocket.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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