China to Replace Nigeria’s Lost Satellite
- By Abimbola Tooki
- Published January 3rd, 2011
- News
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The China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) has disclosed that with the major performance requirement tests already accomplished, the corporation is set to replace and launch Nigeria’s communications satellite, NigComSat 1R by the last quarter of this year.
The project has now entered an advance stage of Assembly and Integration Test (AIT) of the platform and payload components indicating that the project is very much on course for the delivery.
The recent visit by Engineer Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, managing director of Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (Nigcomsat) and top officials of federal ministry of finance to China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), Beijing also confirmed this.
China Great Wall officials explained in Abuja during the sixth QMR that extra precautionary measures and quality control measures are being taken to ensure that nothing is left to chance in order to deliver a robust and high performance satellite.
One of the features of NigComSat-1R is the newly introduced Asian beam meant for content trunking and service delivery to Asia, Europe and Africa.
Ahmed-Rufai assured that with the launch of NigComSat-1R, Nigerians will be able to enjoy affordable broadband and multimedia services.
He also pointed out that despite the arrival of fibre on the shores of Nigeria; satellite is still needed to transmit from landing point in Lagos to other parts of the country. Ahmed-Rufai he said Nigcomsat is already preparing a Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform which will be ready before the launch of NigComSat-1R, thus paving way for local DTH companies to emerge.
Venezuela recently celebrated the second anniversary of VENESAT-1, a Dong Fang Hong (DFH-4) platform, for digital telecommunications and broadcasting. The performance of the satellite is said to have been very good. It was built and launched by China Great Wall.
Besides Venezuela, no fewer than four communications satellites are due for launch in the next few months ahead of NigComSat-1R.
The project has now entered an advance stage of Assembly and Integration Test (AIT) of the platform and payload components indicating that the project is very much on course for the delivery.
The recent visit by Engineer Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, managing director of Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (Nigcomsat) and top officials of federal ministry of finance to China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), Beijing also confirmed this.
China Great Wall officials explained in Abuja during the sixth QMR that extra precautionary measures and quality control measures are being taken to ensure that nothing is left to chance in order to deliver a robust and high performance satellite.
One of the features of NigComSat-1R is the newly introduced Asian beam meant for content trunking and service delivery to Asia, Europe and Africa.
Ahmed-Rufai assured that with the launch of NigComSat-1R, Nigerians will be able to enjoy affordable broadband and multimedia services.
He also pointed out that despite the arrival of fibre on the shores of Nigeria; satellite is still needed to transmit from landing point in Lagos to other parts of the country. Ahmed-Rufai he said Nigcomsat is already preparing a Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform which will be ready before the launch of NigComSat-1R, thus paving way for local DTH companies to emerge.
Venezuela recently celebrated the second anniversary of VENESAT-1, a Dong Fang Hong (DFH-4) platform, for digital telecommunications and broadcasting. The performance of the satellite is said to have been very good. It was built and launched by China Great Wall.
Besides Venezuela, no fewer than four communications satellites are due for launch in the next few months ahead of NigComSat-1R.
