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新闻没有透露发射日期。卫星由Thales Alenia Space（TAS）制造，应该是和之前那颗Eutelsat-W3C一样的平台。卫星将定位于东经52°，寿命15年，约4.5吨重。虽然没有说用什么运载火箭发射，但估计还是CZ-3B/E（当然如果时间久的话说不定CZ-7都已经服役了）。

http://www.spacenews.com/contrac ... rkmenistan-sat.html

Fri, 25 November, 2011

Thales Alenia To Build, China To Launch Turkmenistan’s First Satellite

By Peter B. de Selding


    PARIS — Turkmenistan’s first telecommunications satellite will be launched aboard a Chinese Long March rocket and built by Thales Alenia Space of France and Germany under separate agreements concluded by Turkmen authorities on Nov. 23 and Nov. 20, respectively.

    The satellite will be placed into an orbital slot controlled by the government of Monaco, the Turkmen government announced.

    The launcher agreement, which apparently has not yet been reduced to a formal contract, came following a Chinese-Turkmen summit in Beijing Nov. 23. The joint statement released following the meeting says China will launch Turkmenistan’s national telecommunications satellite.

    The two governments also agreed to work together on future Earth observation satellite projects.

    Using a Chinese rocket will require Thales Alenia Space to use only so-called ITAR-free components, meaning it cannot contain U.S.-built hardware prohibited from export to China under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations. These regulations have in effect barred U.S. satellites from being launched aboard Chinese rockets.

    In recent years, Chinese rockets sold on the export market often have been bundled with Chinese satellites sold to the same customer.

    Negotiations between the Franco-Italian satellite builder and Turkmen authorities on the satellite began several months ago, but it was not until Nov. 18 that the formal satellite construction contract was signed. The Turkmen government announced the contract Nov. 20.

    The decision to move forward with the national satellite project follows the creation in early 2011 of a Turkmen space agency, whose mandate includes satellite communications and the operation of the spacecraft from Turkmen territory.

    Turkmenistan is expected to send an engineering team to France to learn satellite construction and management techniques. Thales Alenia Space will deliver two ground stations for the satellite in addition to the spacecraft itself. No launch vehicle selection was announced.

    The Turkmen Ministry of Communications signed an agreement with Space Systems International-Monaco S.A.M. under which the Turkmen satellite will be stationed at the Monaco-registered 52 degrees east for its 15-year service life. The satellite is expected to weigh about 4,500 kilograms at launch, provide 10 kilowatts of power to the payload and to carry an undetermined number of Ku-band transponders.

    Turkmenistan becomes the most recent in a lengthening list of nations that have decided to build their own satellites rather than to continue leasing satellite capacity from established commercial satellite fleet operators.


新闻没有透露发射日期。卫星由Thales Alenia Space（TAS）制造，应该是和之前那颗Eutelsat-W3C一样的平台。卫星将定位于东经52°，寿命15年，约4.5吨重。虽然没有说用什么运载火箭发射，但估计还是CZ-3B/E（当然如果时间久的话说不定CZ-7都已经服役了）。

http://www.spacenews.com/contrac ... rkmenistan-sat.html

Fri, 25 November, 2011

Thales Alenia To Build, China To Launch Turkmenistan’s First Satellite

By Peter B. de Selding


    PARIS — Turkmenistan’s first telecommunications satellite will be launched aboard a Chinese Long March rocket and built by Thales Alenia Space of France and Germany under separate agreements concluded by Turkmen authorities on Nov. 23 and Nov. 20, respectively.

    The satellite will be placed into an orbital slot controlled by the government of Monaco, the Turkmen government announced.

    The launcher agreement, which apparently has not yet been reduced to a formal contract, came following a Chinese-Turkmen summit in Beijing Nov. 23. The joint statement released following the meeting says China will launch Turkmenistan’s national telecommunications satellite.

    The two governments also agreed to work together on future Earth observation satellite projects.

    Using a Chinese rocket will require Thales Alenia Space to use only so-called ITAR-free components, meaning it cannot contain U.S.-built hardware prohibited from export to China under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations. These regulations have in effect barred U.S. satellites from being launched aboard Chinese rockets.

    In recent years, Chinese rockets sold on the export market often have been bundled with Chinese satellites sold to the same customer.

    Negotiations between the Franco-Italian satellite builder and Turkmen authorities on the satellite began several months ago, but it was not until Nov. 18 that the formal satellite construction contract was signed. The Turkmen government announced the contract Nov. 20.

    The decision to move forward with the national satellite project follows the creation in early 2011 of a Turkmen space agency, whose mandate includes satellite communications and the operation of the spacecraft from Turkmen territory.

    Turkmenistan is expected to send an engineering team to France to learn satellite construction and management techniques. Thales Alenia Space will deliver two ground stations for the satellite in addition to the spacecraft itself. No launch vehicle selection was announced.

    The Turkmen Ministry of Communications signed an agreement with Space Systems International-Monaco S.A.M. under which the Turkmen satellite will be stationed at the Monaco-registered 52 degrees east for its 15-year service life. The satellite is expected to weigh about 4,500 kilograms at launch, provide 10 kilowatts of power to the payload and to carry an undetermined number of Ku-band transponders.

    Turkmenistan becomes the most recent in a lengthening list of nations that have decided to build their own satellites rather than to continue leasing satellite capacity from established commercial satellite fleet operators.