Armenian government works to launch second satellite into orbit

YEREVAN, MAY 4, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government is working towards launching its second satellite into orbit, Minister of High Tech Industry Robert Khachatryan said on May 4.

He said the work is still in the “preliminary stage”.

Armenia launched its first satellite, the ARMSAT-1, on May 25, 2022 from Cape Canaveral on board a SpaceX rocket.

“We are now studying the market, we are evaluating our capabilities, proposals. I don’t think we will have the second [satellite] in 2023, but we are working on it,” the minister told reporters.

He said that the images taken by the Earth observation satellite must be considered as a source of information and that the circle of using the images must be maximally enhanced. He didn’t rule out that the images can be useful in the defense sector.