<< Bangabandhu-I satellite begins for Florida Thursday for propelling >>

Bangladesh's first correspondence satellite Bangabandhu-I will be delivered from France to Florida of the Unite States on Thursday for propelling to the circle in the following month, reports BSS.

"Assembling Company Thales Alenia Space of France will dispatch the satellite for Florida through a particular load flying machine tomorrow [Thursday] morning from the stockroom in Cannes," said venture executive Mohammad Mesbahuzzaman.

American firm SpaceX, which is alloted to dispatch the satellite, would get it on 30 March and complete fundamental work for dispatch, he included.

Thales Alenia Space finished the fabricate of Bangabandhu-I weighing 3.7 tons couple of months back and kept in a stockroom in Cannes of France.

About the conceivable dispatch, the venture executive stated: "In the wake of accepting the load of the satellite SpaceX will illuminate us about the season of dispatch inside 3-4 days."

Answering to a question about the rocket by which Bangabandhu-I will be propelled into the circle, Mesbahuzzaman said assembling of the rocket is in second stage and it will be finished inside couple of days.

"We are utilizing a pristine rocket for Bangabandhu that is the reason it's requiring little investment for propelling," said the venture executive, including, "On the off chance that we could have utilized old rocket, it would take considerably less time."

Bangabandhu-I, to be propelled from Florida's Cape Canaveral take off platform, would take eight days to achieve its orbital space at 119.1 degrees east. Bird of prey 9, one of the SpaceX's finest dispatch vehicles will be utilized for Bangabandhu-I.

The satellite will have 40 transponders, of which 14 in C-band and 26 in Ku-band. One transponder is proportional to 36 MHz.

Prior, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) executive Shahjahan Mahmood said 20 transponders will be conveyed for local clients while the remaining will be sold in global market.

The satellite has 15 years for mission life traverse while an additional 3 years for its outline.

Authorities said Ku-band will cover Bangladesh and its regional water assemblages of the Bay of Bengal, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Then again, C-band will cover Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and segments of Kazakhstan.

Bangabandhu-I satellite will offer video administrations for Direct-to-Home (DTH), e-learning, Tele-prescription, Family Planning, Farming and so on while voice administration to cell backhaul, calamity recuperation and so on and information benefit for web, SCADA, SOHO and in addition business-to-business (VSAT) and so on.

In November 2015, the BTRC marked a $248-million manage Thales Alenia Space to fabricate and dispatch the satellite.

Bangladesh will be the 57th nation when the satellite would be propelled into the orbital space on 119.1 degree east longitude which (opening) was purchased from Russian satellite organization "Intersputnik" for US$ 28 million in January 2015.