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The first Kazakh communications satellite, KazSat, will be delivered to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at the end of November, with a scheduled launch date of December 25, 2005, the program's chief engineer said Wednesday, reports RIA Novosti. Eduard Radchenko, the chief engineer of the Russian-Kazakh KazSat program, said, "We need to launch the satellite by December 25. Thirty-five to forty days are needed to install the system in Baikonur." The timeframe for the project is very short, he said. "The Khrunichev center built the satellite under a contract with Kazakhstan in only two years." The contract outlined the construction of an Earth-based monitoring system so that Kazakhstan could receive and process signals from the satellite. "By sending the first national satellite into orbit, Kazakhstan will be able to avoid using expensive U.S. and European telecommunications satellites, while fully meeting the country's television broadcasting and satellite communications needs," Radchenko said. The KazSat satellite will also provide communications services for Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and parts of Russia. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
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Ashkhabad (AFP) Aug 26, 2005The ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan claimed to have joined the ranks of the world's space powers by sending a container into Earth's orbit carrying a spiritual guide written by the country's idiosyncratic leader, newspapers reported Friday. |
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