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Director General of the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) Azzedine Oussedik |
ALGIERS- The satellite Alcomsat1, devoted
to telecommunications, will be launched before the end of June 2017, announced in Algiers, Director General of the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL)
Azzedine Oussedik, underlining that it will allow strengthening the national
sovereignty in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting.
“The satellite Alcomsat1 will be launched
before the end of June 2017 with the aim of strengthening the national
sovereignty in the fields of telecommunications and broadcasting, of telephony
and internet,” stressed Oussedik in a press conference after the successful
launch, on Monday 26 september 2016, of three Algerian observation satellites.
He underlined that it was a major programme
which has been established, as part of this project, equipped with a
terrestrial station in Bouchaoui, with redundancies in the heights of High
Plateaus, adding that its running is entrusted to Algerian experts, who are
under training.
Oussedik said that this project is carried
out in partnership with the Chinese, with whom Algeria has an “important”
training programme.
Three Algerian satellites (Alsat-1B,
Alsat-2B et Alsat-1N) were successfully launched Monday by the Indian launcher
PSLV C-35 from the site of Sriharikota of the Spatial Centre of Satich Dhawan
(southeast of India).