The China Great Wall Industry Corporation has given the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to its Nigerian counterpart at the Oba-sanjo Space Center in Abuja. The NigComSat 1-R, which was launched on December 20th, 2011 has completed the in-orbit test and is ready for commercial operation. The CGWIC is also prepared for the immediate take-off of the satellite programs NigComSat 2 and NigComSat 3. Nigeria’s communications satellite NigComSat 1 was successfully launched in 2007 in China but de-orbited in November 2008 due to malfunction of the solar array deployment assembly. China decided in 2009 to build NigComSat 1-R to replace the defunct one without adding additional costs for Nigeria. NigComSat-1R will be mainly used for communications, broadcasting, tele-education, broad-band multimedia service and navigation service.
中國長城工業(yè)有限公司向尼日利亞通信衛(wèi)星有限公司交付通信衛(wèi)星1R的交接儀式19日在位于尼日利亞首都阿布賈的尼日利亞衛(wèi)星地面站隆重舉行。尼日利亞總統(tǒng)古德勒克`喬納森、中國駐尼日利亞大使鄧波清、尼日利亞阿布賈聯(lián)邦首都區(qū)部長巴拉·默罕穆德、尼日利亞信息技術(shù)部部長奧莫博拉·約翰遜、中國長城工業(yè)有限公司總裁殷禮明和尼日利亞通信衛(wèi)星公司總經(jīng)理魯法伊等中尼兩國各界代表約100人出席了活動(dòng)。