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Intersputnik
Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications
Formation15 November 1971;52 years ago(15 November 1971)
Legal statusActive
HeadquartersMoscow,Russia
Membership
25 member states
Official language
Russian
Director General
Ksenia Drozdova[1]
Websiteintersputnik.int

TheIntersputnik International Organization of Space Communications,commonly known asIntersputnik,is an internationalsatellitecommunications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, inMoscowby theSoviet Unionalong with a group of seven formerly socialist states (Poland,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Mongolia) andCuba.

The objective was and continues to be the development and common use ofcommunications satellites.It was created as the Eastern Bloc's response to the WesternIntelsatorganization. As of 2008 the organization has 25 member states, among them theFederal Republic of Germanyas the legal successor of theGDR.

Intersputnik nowadays is a commercially aligned organization. It operates 12 satellites in orbit and 41transponders.In June 1997 Intersputnik created theLockheed Martin Intersputnik(LMI) joint venture together withLockheed Martin,which built and operated the satellites of the same name. In September 2006, Lockheed Martin Intersputnik was acquired byAsia Broadcast Satellite(ABS).

History

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Initially, the Intersputnik system was created on the basis of the Soviet Orbit-2 satellite broadcasting network and was designed to serve the countries participating in theCouncil for Mutual Economic Assistance(Comecon). The main system and technical developments were carried out byNIIR,radio receiving equipment was produced at the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant, antenna-feeder devices at the Podolsk Electromechanical Plant, radio transmitting and channel-forming equipment was manufactured by the Krasnoyarsk TV Plant.

In the initial version, Intersputnik usedhighly elliptical satellitesof theMolniya-3type, and in 1978 it began usinggeostationary satellitesof theGorizonttype. Receiving complexes "Orbita-2" with transmitters "Gradient-K" and channel-forming equipment RS-1, RS-2 operated at the earth stations. In the process of modernization, the transmitters were replaced by more modern Helikon type with a power of 3 kW and new channel-forming equipment “Gradient-N” began to be used. Subsequently, theResearch Institute for Telecommunication(TKI) inBudapesttook part in the development of the equipment for Intersputnik, and factories inHungaryandCzechoslovakiawere connected to production.[2]

Member states

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See also

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References

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  1. ^"Directorate".Intersputnik.net.RetrievedMarch 4,2021.
  2. ^Vonog A. I.Intersputnik system.Krasnoyarsk TV plant.Our story. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  3. ^"Member Countries".Intersputnik.Retrieved24 July2022.
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