China Great Wall To Build, Launch Sri Lankan Satellite

摘要

Sri Lanka's new government-backed telecommunications satellite operator, SupremeSAT, on May 30 said it had signed a $215 million contract with China's commercial satellite and rocket sales organization for the construction and launch of the SupremeSAT-2 satellite in mid-2016. In a response to SpaceNews inquiries, Colombo-based SupremeSAT declined to specify the orbital slot to be used for SupremeSAT-2, which will be Sri Lanka's first fully owned satellite. Sri Lankan government officials in the past have said it would be located at 50 degrees east.