Azerbaijan Firms Up Satellite Contract with Orbital Sciences

摘要

The government of Azerbaijan has contracted with Orbital Sciences Corp. to build the nation's first telecommunications satellite following an agreement between Azeri authorities and Malaysia's Measat satellite operator on sharing an orbital slot, the Azeri government and Orbital Sciences said.rnThe Azersat spacecraft will be launched in 2012 into the 46 degrees east longitude orbital position now occupied by Measat's Africasat 1 spacecraft.