{"id":66440,"date":"2017-12-29T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-restores-contact-with-angosat-1\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:54:57","slug":"russia-restores-contact-with-angosat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-restores-contact-with-angosat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Restores Contact with AngoSat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSC Energia <\/strong>announced Friday that it successfully restored its communications link with the AngoSat 1 spacecraft. Energia lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, RSC Energia \u2014 AngoSat 1\u2019s manufacturer \u2014 stated that its specialists received telemetric information from the satellite showing that all parameters of its on-board systems are normal.<\/p>\n<p>AngoSat 1 is Angola\u2019s first telecommunications satellite, and carries 16 C-band and six Ku-band transponders to improve internet access, satellite communications, and radio and TV services in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The telemetry loss is Russia\u2019s second post-launch mishap in less than a month, after a Soyuz mission to orbit a meteorological satellite (Meteor-M 2-1), as well as 18 other secondary payloads, failed in late November. The specific cause for the incident in November remains muddled: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said this week that the spacecraft\u2019s azimuth coordinates were programmed for a launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, not Vostochny. <strong>Roscosmos<\/strong>, however, rejected Rogozin\u2019s claim, stating that the accident was caused by \u201ca combination of several parameters,\u201d according to Russian media outlet <strong>RIA Novosti.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSC Energia announced Friday that it successfully restored its communications link with the AngoSat 1 spacecraft. Energia lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 26. In a press release, RSC Energia \u2014 AngoSat 1\u2019s manufacturer \u2014 stated that its specialists received telemetric information from the satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66441,"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-66440","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\/66440"}],"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=66440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}