Venezuela threw this Wednesday, October 29, from China his first satellite baptized like "Simón Bolívar", a project with ends exclusively civil that the president Hugo Chávez has impelled with the desire to encourage the Latin-American integration.
Placed in the top of a rocket, the geostationary satellite Venesat-1 was thrown to 12:20 places (16h50 GMT) from the spatial center Xichang, in the Chinese province of Sichuan (south-west), as there proved to be live the chain of Venezuelan official television.
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, accompanied by his Bolivian pair, Evo Morales, attended the operation from the Luepa locality, to the east of Venezuela, where the second station is terrena of control of Simón Bolívar. The chief celebrated with applauses the throwing.
The informations proceeding from Xichang indicated that the operation had developed successfully.
Thanks to this satellite, the Venezuelan government wants to pass pass in "his technological sovereignty".
The construction and putting in orbit of this satellite, a project initiated in 2002, cost to Venezuela 241 million dollars, which 165 millions join for the construction of two terrestrial head offices of control.
The satellite was promoted by a rocket to approximately 200 km of the terrestrial surface. As soon as the separation was carried out, Simón Bolívar directed his trajectory up to his work point in the orbit 78th Oestee.
From the throwing up to his laying and final orientation in this orbit they will happen between six and ten days.
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Simón Bolívar will place in the orbital position of 78th West, transferred by Uruguay, which will do that the 1.300 megahertz sign (MHz) spreads from the south of Mexico up to half of the territory of Argentina and Chile 