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Bangabandhu Satellite-1: Launched $248 million Falcon 9: Launched in 2018 Bangabandhu Satellite-2: Approved $435 million Bangladesh Satellite Company Ltd (BSCL) has already signed a cooperation contract with Glavkosmos from Russia for the purpose of launching Bangabandhu 2 satellite by December 2023. [54]
The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 (Bangabandhu-1) is the first Bangladeshi geostationary communications and broadcasting satellite. It is named after the first president of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and launched on 12 May 2018 from Kennedy Space Center, USA. [1]
Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited was established on 15 August 2017. The company had been authorized a capital of 50 billion BDT and paid capital of five billion BDT. [5] The decision to form the company was approved at a Cabinet of Bangladesh meeting in July 2017. The company is managed by SPARRSO which is the national space agency of ...
It broadcasts using the Bangabandhu-1 satellite since 2019. [7] [8] On YouTube, Somoy is the most subscribed Bangladeshi channel, being the first to receive the Diamond Play Button in 2021. [9] Several fact-checking organizations have identified Somoy TV as a significant source of misinformation within Bangladesh. [10] [11]
In 2018, Bangladesh Television began broadcasting through the Bangabandhu-1 satellite, along with several other local television channels. [125] Via the Bangabandhu-1 satellite, the network's television signals can be received in the Middle East and North Africa. [126] BTV World was later shut down on 31 December 2024, being replaced with BTV News.
French President Emmanuel Macron witnessed the signature of a deal Monday to facilitate loans to Bangladesh aimed at infrastructure development, as well as a letter of intent to provide the South ...
In May 2019, BEXIMCO launched Akash DTH, Bangladesh's first DTH satellite television provider. [29] [30] On 2 October 2019, all Bangladeshi television channels began broadcasting via the Bangabandhu-1 satellite. [31] During the COVID-19 pandemic, both BTV and Sangsad Television broadcast live educational lessons for primary and secondary level ...
The mission also comes on the back of a number of successful launches by Isro in 2023, including the groundbreaking Chandrayaan-3 mission landing a probe on the lunar South Pole, and a satellite ...