{"id":5333,"date":"2012-03-22T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-hands-over-nigcomsat-1-r-to-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:14:16","slug":"china-hands-over-nigcomsat-1-r-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-hands-over-nigcomsat-1-r-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"China Hands Over NigComSat 1-R to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 22 (China Space News) &#8212; China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) handed the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) for commercial operation on Monday at the Obasanjo Space Center in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>NigComSat 1-R, which was launched on Dec. 20, 2011 and successfully positioned in its geostationary orbit a week later, has completed the in-orbit test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This event marks the beginning of full commercialization of the satellite for the benefit of Nigeria and indeed the Africa continent and the global community,&#8221; said Turner T. Isoun, the NIGCOMSAT board chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s communications satellite NigComSat 1 was successfully launched in 2007 in China but de-orbited in November 2008 due to malfunction of the solar array deployment assembly. China decided in 2009 to build NigComSat 1-R to replace the defunct one without adding additional costs to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>NigComSat-1R, covering Central, Western and Southern Africa, Central and Eastern part of Europe, and some areas of Mid-Asia, will be mainly used for communications, broadcasting, tele-education, broad-band multimedia service and navigation service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, March 22 (China Space News) &#8212; China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) handed the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) for commercial operation on Monday at the Obasanjo Space Center in Abuja. NigComSat 1-R, which was launched on Dec. 20, 2011 and successfully positioned in its geostationary orbit a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333"}],"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=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}