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The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, commonly known as Intersputnik, is an international
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communications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, in
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by the
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along with a group of eight formerly socialist states (Poland,
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). The objective was and continues to be the development and common use of
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. It was created as the Eastern Bloc's response to the Western
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organization. As of 2008 the organization has 25 member states, among them the
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as the legal successor of the GDR. Intersputnik nowadays is a commercially aligned organization. It operates 12 satellites in orbit and 41
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. In June 1997 Intersputnik created the Lockheed Martin Intersputnik (LMI) joint venture together with
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, which built and operated the satellites of the same name. In September 2006, Lockheed Martin Intersputnik was acquired by
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(ABS).


History

Initially, the Intersputnik system was created on the basis of the Soviet Orbit-2 satellite broadcasting network and was designed to serve the countries participating in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (
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). The main system and technical developments were carried out by
NIIR FSBI NII Radio or NIIR (russian: ФГБУ НИИ Радио, НИИР) is a Soviet/Russian Scientific Research Institute created in 1949 by a decree of the Soviet Government. Description It is currently an institute of the Russian Ministry of In ...
, radio receiving equipment was produced at the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant, antenna-feeder devices at the Podolsk Electromechanical Plant, radio transmitting and channel-forming equipment was manufactured by the Krasnoyarsk TV Plant. In the initial version, Intersputnik used highly elliptical satellites of the Molniya-3 type, and in 1978 it began using
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s of the
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type. Receiving complexes "Orbita-2" with transmitters "Gradient-K" and channel-forming equipment RS-1, RS-2 operated at the earth stations. In the process of modernization, the transmitters were replaced by more modern Helikon type with a power of 3 kW and new channel-forming equipment “Gradient-N” began to be used. Subsequently, the Budapest Long Distance Telecommunications Institute (TKI) took part in the development of the equipment for Intersputnik, and factories in
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and
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were connected to production.


Member states

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See also

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Ground station A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves fro ...
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Communications satellite A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. C ...
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Submarine communications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...
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European Telecommunications Satellite Organization The European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT IGO) is an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 49 member states. It is headquartered in Paris, France. The mission of EUTELSAT IGO is to maintain the rights to use radio f ...


References


External links

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Agreement on the legal capacity, privileges and immunities
Berlin, 20 September 1976

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