https://spacewatch.global/tag/funda/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:00:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/funda/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2018/06/angola-hopes-two-times-trick-russia-angosat-2/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 04:00:51 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9005 After the failure of Angosat-1 shortly after its launch late last year, Angola is again partnering with Russia to build and launch Angosat-2 by 2020. Angola’s first communications satellite, Angosat-1, failed shortly after reaching orbit. It was launched in December 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board a Zenit 3F rocket. Russia’s RSC Energia, a subsidiary of the state-run space industry player Roscosmos, built the satellite.]]>