"The control of the satellite got lost" last June 8, as has announced ell chief of the spatial agency kazaja, Talgat Musayev, specifying that the possibilities that the KazSat should have lost sound "very high".
According to Musayev, the cause of the breakdown would be seemingly an error of conception of the satellite for the Russian signature Jrunichev, manufacturer of the rockets Proton. The person in charge of the spatial agency criticized the quality of the device, considering it to be as "a bargain sale".
KazSat had been thrown by big drum and saucer in June, 2006 from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, in the presence of the president kazajo Nursultan Nazarbayev, and of his Russian counterpart of the epoch, Vladimir Putin.
The satellite KazSat 1 is placed in the geostationary orbit of 103 ° East and till the end of the year 2007 there could take advantage 70 % of the whole of his operative capacity. Before the technical problems of the satellite, his persons in charge decided to beginnings of 2008 tranferir most of the chains of television that it was expressing to the satellite Intelsat 904, in 60th East.
(Several, 17/06/08) |
The only satellite of telecommunications of Kazakhstan, in orbit for two years, does not answer for any more than one week and there exist little possibilities of recovering it
