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Azerspace-1 sports 24 C-band transponders and 12 Ku-band transponders to deliver communications coverage for Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Europe and Africa.<\/p>\nSpace Systems\/Loral (SSL) has been selected to provide a communications satellite to Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan. The new satellite will be called Azerspace-2, although it will also be called Intesat-38 after a strategic agreement was signed with Intelsat. The launch \u2013 on a yet-to-be-confirmed rocket \u2013 is expected to take place late in 2017.<\/p>\n
SSL Deal:<\/p>\n
The satellite will be located at the 45 degrees east orbital location where it will provide service in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Azerspace-2 will be Azercosmos\u2019 second telecommunications satellite, and will expand on the current capacity of Azerspace-1.<\/p>\n
Azerspace-1 sports 24 C-band transponders and 12 Ku-band transponders to deliver communications coverage for Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Europe and Africa.<\/p>\n
Produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation, the satellite is based on Orbital\u2019s STAR-2 platform with a designed mission life of 15 years. It was launched on an Ariane 5 launch back in 2013, alongside Amazonas-3.<\/p>\n
Azerspace-2 will ride into space to support the growing demand for DTH, government, and network services in Europe, Central and South Asia, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, but won\u2019t be built on the same STAR-2 platform after SSL beat out Orbital ATK to the contract.<\/p>\n
The Great Wall Industry Corporation of China and and France\u2019s Airbus Defense and Space also bid and lost out to SSL.<\/p>\n
\u201cSSL has a long history of partnering with satellite operators,\u201d noted John Celli, President of SSL. \u201cWe look forward to supporting Azercosmos in its collaborative project with Intelsat by building the spacecraft that will help both Azercosmos and Intelsat meet their growth objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aerospace industry analysis (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n Azerspace-2\/Intelsat 38, will be designed and built at SSL\u2019s Palo Alto plant in California.<\/p>\n For Intelsat, the satellite will provide continuity of service for the Intelsat 12 satellite currently stationed at 45 degrees East, an orbital location which hosts DTH platforms for Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n Intelsat 38 will also provide connectivity for corporate networks and government applications in Africa. Intelsat 12 was also built by SSL and launched in 2000.<\/p>\n \u201cOur partnership with Azercosmos and SSL will enable us to meet the content distribution demands of viewers in Central Europe and Asia and provide corporate networks in Africa with the broadband connectivity they need to build and expand their businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n No launch vehicle was confirmed at the time of the announcement, while local media reports note \u201cissues\u201d related to the insurance of the satellite are to be resolved by the time of its launch. The selection of the launch vehicle will play into the insurance discussion.<\/p>\n \u201cThis new satellite will provide Azercosmos with additional capacity for the increasing demand in the region, and will allow us to continue to bring the best service to our customers,\u201d added Rashad Nabiyev, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Azercosmos. \u201cWe are pleased to collaborate with two world leaders in the satellite industry.\u201d<\/p>\n (Images via SSL and MDA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Space Systems\/Loral (SSL) has been selected to provide a communications satellite to Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan. The new satellite will be called Azerspace-2, although it will also be called Intesat-38 after a strategic agreement was signed with Intelsat. The launch \u2013 on a yet-to-be-confirmed rocket \u2013 is expected to take place late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2015-10-20-202952\"](\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-20-202952-350x272.jpg\")
As part of the agreement, Canada\u2019s MDA will provide knowledge transfer cooperation related to radar Earth observation directly to Azercosmos. The satellite design is based on the SSL 1300 satellite platform that provides the flexibility for a broad range of applications and technology advances.<\/p>\n![\"2015-10-20-203156\"](\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-20-203156-350x269.jpg\")
\u201cIntelsat 38 is an example of the collaboration taking place across the satellite industry today,\u201d added Thierry Guillemin, EVP and Chief Technology Officer of Intelsat.<\/p>\n