Saturday, December 21, 2013

Bolivian first communications satellite successfully launched on the Chinese carrier - ITAR-TASS

BEIJING, Dec. 21. (ARMS-TASS). In China, 20 December booster Changzheng-3B was successfully launched Bolivian communications satellite. Satellite “Tupac Katari” launched from the Xichang launch site in Sichuan province (Southwest China).

at startup attended by President Evo Morales of Bolivia. The Chinese side, as reported by Xinhua, first invited the Baikonur foreign head of state to monitor the missile launch.

satellite, named after the leader of the Indian uprising against Spanish colonial rule in the eighteenth century, established Chinese corporation aerospace science and technology and is designed for 15 years of work. This – the first Bolivian communications satellite and the fifth such spacecraft, driven by China for foreign customers.

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