Intersputnik

Intersputnik is an international satellite organization and was founded on November 15, 1971 in Moscow by a state treaty by the nine then socialist states, which were also full members of Comecon after Cuba's accession . The task was and is the development and sharing of communications satellites . The counterpart on the western side was Intelsat .

Intersputnik is now a commercially oriented organization. It operates 12 satellites in earth orbit and 41 transponders . In June 1997, founded Intersputnik together with Lockheed Martin , the joint venture L ockheed M artin I ntersputnik (LMI), headquartered in London , which builds the satellites of the same name and operates.

Member states

26 states are members of Intersputnik, including the Federal Republic of Germany as the legal successor to the GDR and the only “western” country. As a founding member, the GDR was involved in the Intersputnik program when the treaty came into force in July 1972. An earth station was operated as the Neu Golm earth station from 1975 in Neu Golm near Bad Saarow in Brandenburg . It was used to transmit telephone calls, telegraphy, radio and television via the satellite network.

•  Afghanistan
•  Azerbaijan
•  Bulgaria
•  Germany (as legal successor to the GDR)
•  Georgia
•  India
•  Yemen
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Cuba
•  Laos
•  Mongolia
•  Nicaragua
•  North Korea
•  Poland
•  Romania
•  Russia
•  Somalia
•  Syria
•  Tajikistan
•  Czech Republic
•  Turkmenistan
•  Ukraine
•  Hungary
•  Vietnam
•  Belarus

See also

• Intercosmos
• sputnik
• Orbit system
• Raduga (satellite)
• Space agency

Web links

• Intersputnik (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Agreement on the Legal Capacity, Privileges and Immunities of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications. (PDF; 21 kB) azercosmos.az, December 20, 1976, archived from the original on October 15, 2012 ; accessed on October 2, 2013 . 
2. ↑ GG Kudrjawtsew, Director General of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications: Intersputnik's Role in Supporting Global Telecommunications in the Third Millennium. UN, archived from the original on March 24, 2017 ; accessed on October 2, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Member Countries. Intersputnik, accessed July 5, 2019 . 
4. ^ Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the approval of the Agreement on the establishment of the Intersputnik International System and Organization of Space Communications. (PDF; 177 kB) Azərkosmos, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 15, 2016 .