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KazSat 1, the first Kazakh space satellite, was launched on June 18, 2006

KAZSAT 1
1 29230U 06022A   11168.21262235 -.00000062  00000-0  10000-3 0  9494
2 29230 001.8567 075.0545 0005175 005.7606 353.4668 00.99230877 18259

Graveyard orbit

Period:       1451.16 minutes
Inclination: 1.85°
Apogee:     36103 km
Perigee:     36059 km

Kazakhstan has launched its first communications satellite, entering the ranks of the space-exploring nations.
The unmanned KazSat-1 satellite was launched from the Baikonur space centre in the west of the country.
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KazSat 1, the first Kazakh space satellite, was launched on June 18, 2006 by Proton-K rocket (made by Khrunichev Space Centre). It contains 12 Ku-band  transponders (each 72 MHz). It is a communications satellite occupying geosynchronous orbit approximately 36 000 km above the Earth.

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The KazSat-1 communications satellite is to be decommissioned.
The orbit of the satellite, currently at 36,000-km above the Earth, will be raised into a satellite graveyard orbit.

TLE Data
KAZSAT 1
1 29230U 06022A   09233.67462666  .00000083  00000-0  10000-3 0  6471
2 29230 000.2287 085.2211 0002547 054.3832 129.2902 00.99229871 11654

Period:       1451.17
Inclination: 0.23
Apogee:     36093
Perigee:     36070

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Kazakhstan's first communications satellite, was launched in June 2006 amid huge fanfare. Symbolically it was a major event, since the large country located in the heart of the Eurasian continent has big aspirations for its future -- ambitions all sparked by Kazakhstan's vast oil reserves.
KazSat was intended to serve Kazakhstan's communications needs but space agency officials boasted when it was launched that other Central Asian states, the ones that don't have the funds to even consider launching their own satellite, could arrange to use KazSat. KazSat was exactly the sort of status symbol the country's leadership wanted.
But, on December 2, officials at the Kazkosmos space agency sadly told a parliamentary committee that KazSat was "lost."

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Officials say Kazakhstan's only satellite has been returned to its normal orbit, more than four months after a computer glitch forced the craft to spiral out of control.
Russia's state-controlled Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said Friday it hopes that the craft will resume normal operations after a series of checks.

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Broadcasts via Kazakhstan's first telecommunication satellite were interrupted on Sunday.
At the end of 2007 the satellite was operating at 70% of its potential.

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A Proton-K Stage 4 Rocket Body (2006 022C) launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the KazSat 1 Mission, on the 17th June, 2006, re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 20th June @ 07:37 UTC ± 20 minutes.
(Possibly re-entered over the Pacific)

The Proton-K Platform (2006 022B) launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the KazSat 1 Mission, on the 17th June, 2006, re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 18th June @ 20:36 UTC ± 90 minutes.
(Possibly re-entered over Saudi Arabia)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev watch the launch of Russian-built Proton booster with KazSat 1 satellite aboard at the Russian-rented Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan.

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TLE Data

2006-022B
1 29231U 06022B 06169.61320734 .14273906 12413-4 98004-3 0 98
2 29231 051.5610 252.7102 0021713 276.9847 083.3921 16.38985596 111

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