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Azercosmos, Azerbaijan’s space agency, and the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana have announced a new partnership, described as a ‘new milestone in connectivity’, to launch satellite services in Botswana.
Under this long-term agreement, the Botswana government agency will utilise data services provided via the Azerspace-1 telecommunication satellite. This marks the inaugural provision of satellite data services to Botswana via the African C-band coverage on the Azerspace-1 satellite.
Azercosmos says it currently supplies satellite services to nearly half of the 13 countries in Southern Africa. This collaboration with Botswana, it suggests, will enhance the deployment of Azerspace satellite services in large-scale data projects across Southern Africa.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) is responsible for the regulation and development of air transport, providing air navigation services, managing airports and advising the government on all aspects of civil aviation. It is not clear how it will use the data services enabled by Azercosmos.
C-band has been a theme of a number of Azercosmos announcements in recent years. In 2022 we reported that Azercosmos and teleport and data centre facility Signalhorn had entered into a partnership agreement to provide what were describes as uninterrupted, secure and high-quality satellite services throughout Africa via the C-band capacity on the Azerspace-1 satellite.
In late 2021 an agreement was announced with Malaysian operator Measat Satellite Systems, under which Azercosmos intended to utilise the C-band capacity of the Azerspace-1 satellite to provide satellite services throughout the African region.
C-band was the first frequency band allocated for commercial telecommunications via satellites. It performs better under adverse weather conditions than some other frequencies. However, it requires very big receiving antennas.
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Hard on the heels of recent headlines made by China’s plans to launch a rival to the Starlink service has comes news of an incident that certainly wasn’t part of those plans.
According to the UK’s PC Mag, quoting US Space Command, the rocket carrying satellites for China’s own version of the Starlink satellite constellation and internet service has accidentally broken apart in space, creating a debris field in Earth’s orbit.
The rocket, Long March 6A, took off on Tuesday, carrying the first 18 satellites for China’s Qianfan Thousand Sails satellite constellation, and the satellites were successfully deployed. However, the upper stage to the rocket appears to have split into numerous fragments.
US Space Command, a unified combatant command of the United States Department of Defense, responsible for military operations in outer space, suggests that the incident has resulted in over 300 pieces of trackable debris in low-Earth orbit, but according to other sources this total could be much greater.
On its X account, satellite monitoring company LeoLabs says: “We’re actively monitoring and analysing the breakup event in #LEO involving a Chinese rocket body, CZ-6A. Our radar data indicates this event occurred on 6 August at ~20:10 UTC at ~810 km. It resulted in at least 700 debris fragments and potentially more than 900.”
PC Mag explains that the danger is that the debris is orbiting the Earth at around 800 kilometres, and could eventually descend to where both Starlink satellites and the International Space Station reside at 550 kilometres and 400 kilometres, respectively. It suggests that the same debris field might also endanger China’s own Qianfan satellites.
Starlink’s X account says its team is monitoring the debris and that it does not pose a significant immediate risk to the Starlink constellation. The company adds that it has designed its Starlink satellites with thrusters capable of manoeuvring them away from space junk. However, it suggests that the junk is likely to remain in space for decades due to the incident occurring at a high altitude.
In the meantime, the incident is apparently creating worries that China’s pursuit of Starlink could result in more accidents that lead to more debris fields. On the upside, reporting of this incident is at least raising awareness of potential problems relating to space debris and the need to be transparent about them.
That said, the Chinese launch provider, China Great Wall Industry Corporation, so far hasn’t commented on the debris field or what might have caused the Long March 6A rocket to break apart.
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