Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, inaugurates on Tuesday (24th), in the Funda area, in Luanda, the Satellite Control and Mission Centre.
The centre’s inauguration, initially scheduled for Monday (23), will take place within the scope of the National Space Strategy and after the successful launch of the ANGOSAT-2 into orbit.
The center was built on a total surface of 6,617 m2, with 3 floors, 47 compartments and duly equipped with technical and technological means.
The Satellite Mission and Control Center is an intelligent infrastructure with multiple engineering advantages, capable of ensuring the tracking, monitoring and operation of satellites, in this case the ANGOSAT-2.
ANGOSAT-2 is an Angolan communications satellite, launched on October 12, 2022 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, which is in orbit at position 23E.
With high data transmission rates, ANGOSAT-2 was designed and built with the direct participation and dedication of Russian and Angolan specialists, and has the capacity to cover, through the C-Band, the entire African continent and a significant part of the South. from Europe.
The satellite will contribute to an excellent and modern source of revenue generation, since ANGOSAT-2 offers coverage to a significant part of the African continent and the European continent, and will contribute greatly to reducing the digital divide in Angola and Angolans as well as Africa.
This will significantly contribute to the expansion of telecommunications services to the most remote areas of the country at competitive prices, guarantee greater development of telemedicine, distance education services, direct support to agricultural activity, and not only that, at the national level.
The creation of employment opportunities in areas related to space technology, such as maintenance and installation of VSAT antennas, and the country’s autonomy in the process of developing and operating equipment, opening up new scenarios for professionals and companies in the aerospace sector, are part of of the purposes of this Angolan satellite.
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