First Kazakh Satellite Launched

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KazSat telecom satellite.

by Staff Writers
Baikonour, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jun 19, 2006
Kazakhstan's first telecommunications satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The KazSat telecom satellite was launched by a Russian Proton rocket at 4:44 a.m. local time and released from the rocket nine minutes later.

Seven hours after launch the Kazakh satellite was due to reach its permanent orbit.

Putin and Nazarbayev attended the launch at Baikonur, the former Soviet cosmodrome which Russia has leased from Kazakhstan since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

The satellite was built in Russia by the same frim that manufactures the workhorse Proton rockets.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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