The China Great Wall Industry Corporation has given the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to its Nigerian counterpart at the Oba-sanjo Space Center in Abuja. The NigComSat 1-R, which was launched on December 20th, 2011 has completed the in-orbit test and is ready for commercial operation. The CGWIC is also prepared for the immediate take-off of the satellite programs NigComSat 2 and NigComSat 3. Nigeria’s communications satellite NigComSat 1 was successfully launched in 2007 in China but de-orbited in November 2008 due to malfunction of the solar array deployment assembly. China decided in 2009 to build NigComSat 1-R to replace the defunct one without adding additional costs for Nigeria. NigComSat-1R will be mainly used for communications, broadcasting, tele-education, broad-band multimedia service and navigation service.
中国长城工业有限公司向尼日利亚通信卫星有限公司交付通信卫星1R的交接仪式19日在位于尼日利亚首都阿布贾的尼日利亚卫星地面站隆重举行。尼日利亚总统古德勒克`乔纳森、中国驻尼日利亚大使邓波清、尼日利亚阿布贾联邦首都区部长巴拉·默罕穆德、尼日利亚信息技术部部长奥莫博拉·约翰逊、中国长城工业有限公司总裁殷礼明和尼日利亚通信卫星公司总经理鲁法伊等中尼两国各界代表约100人出席了活动。