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How the national space communication and broadcasting system "KazSat" works

Author - Нургалиева Сара Кабиевна
Translator - Динара Жумабаева
Date: 12.10.2021

AKKOL.OWN INFORMATION - October 4, 2021 marked the 64th anniversary of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES), which heralded the beginning of the human space era. It was the AES that laid the foundations of space satellite systems in the world, including the first national space communication system (SCS) and broadcasting "KazSat".

In order to find out how the national SCS of the Republic of Kazakhstan works, the film crew of the "Tansholpan" program visited the Akkol Space Communications Center during the World Space Week. The specialists of the Center told about how the satellites are managed, what their benefits are for the country.

The Akkol Space Communication Center is the first Kazakhstani object of ground space infrastructure, which was built on the instructions of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.А. Nazarbayev in 2005. The creation and operation of the KazSat space satellite system was entrusted to the Republican Center for Space Communications (RCSC), which was established in 2004 by the resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Two spacecraft of the Kazsat series operate in geostationary orbit. "RCSC" JSC provides 100% of the market of the Republic of Kazakhstan in telecommunications and information technology services. In 2017, domestic television was completely transferred to Kazakhstani communication and broadcasting satellites. Since 2018, the RCSC team, having fully recouped the costs, has been working with a profit, according to the results of work in 2019, the RCSC transferred about a billion tenge of net profit to the republican budget.

Read more in the story of the "Kazakhstan" TV channel https://youtu.be/TCOKuifvDTU