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Bangladesh conducts test run of Bangabandhu-1 satellite's commercial operations
The experimental commercial operations of the Bangabandhu-1 satellite have started through the airing of SAFF Championship matches.
Published : 4 Sept 2018, 08:23 PM
Updated : 4 Sept 2018, 08:23 PM
“We are fully successful. Picture quality was very good during the broadcast,” Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited or BCSCL Chairman Shahjahan Mahmood told bdnews24.com after the tournament opened on Tuesday.
Pakistan faced Nepal in the first match while hosts Bangladesh played Bhutan.
State-run Bangladesh Television is broadcasting the matches live from the feed of a private station, which bought the broadcast rights of the tournament, through the country’s first satellite launched four months ago.
BCSCL, which was formed to operate the satellite, expects the satellite to go fully commercial by mid-October, Shahjahan said.
The TV and radio stations operating in Bangladesh currently depend on satellites of other countries for broadcast.
Bangladesh spends $14 million a year on renting foreign satellite slots .
The government hopes to earn Tk 2.5 to 3 billion annually from the satellite and start making profit in six to seven years.
An upgraded version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the US on a mission to take the satellite, built by France’s Thales Alenia Space, into its orbit on May 13.
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