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[Satellite TODAY 07-10-12] The Armenian government is planning to order a commercial communications satellite from Russia under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed July 9, according to a statement issued the same day by Roscosmos Director Vladimir Popovkin.
Popovkin said Armenia’s first satellite would carry 15 transponders, but that details of the satellite’s development and launch are still being negotiated.
“A contract should be signed by year-end,” Popovkin said in a statement.
Several Armenian news outlets reported that Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan discussed the satellite project with officials from the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building in April.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank agreed to finance development of Azerbaijan’s first national telecommunications satellite in 2011. Arianespace slated the satellite for launch later this year on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.
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