Satellite Alcomsat1, devoted to telecommunications, to be launched before June 2017

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).