Russia loses contact with Angola's first satellite, Angosat-1

Energia, the Russian spacecraft maker which produced the satellite for Angola, said it reached orbit and established communication according to plan but then the spacecraft stopped sending telemetry data

Russia has lost contact with Angola’s first telecoms satellite launched from Baikonur.

The incident involving the Russian-made Angosat-1 followed a similar one in November when Russia lost contact with a weather satellite launched from a new cosmodrome in the country’s far east.

There was no reason given for the loss of contact.

There have been similar incidents before with satellites in other countries including the United States and Kazakhstan.

In 2006, NASA re-established communication with a satellite nearly two years after losing contact with the spacecraft.