Bangabandhu Satellite-1: A Dream Turns into a Reality

Pranab Kumar Panday Since we are now living in the digital era, life has become very onerous without internet and modern telecommunication system that have transformed into an instrument of attaining economic development. Thus, most of the modern and economically developed nations have their own satellite in the orbit. Like other countries of ...

Bangladesh’s Space Victory: A New Era Begins

Bappy Rahman Finally, the very first satellite of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Satellite-1, successfully took off from Cape Canaveral launch site onboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket. It was a very historical and exciting moment for the entire nation of Bangladesh to watch its very first satellite taking off for space successfully. This telecommunicatio...

Who Owns and/or Controls the Bangabandhu-1 Satellite?- Shah Ali Farhad

This was a historic week, as Bangladesh formally entered the space age by successfully launching into orbit its first geostationary communications satellite, the Bangabandhu-1. However, rather than acknowledge this significant technological advancement, which is a matter of national pride as well as being a development milestone, the most senio...

Bangabandhu Satellite to create enormous opportunities

Bangabandhu-1 Satellite is to establish Bangladesh's own stake on the space opening up enormous opportunities providing three types of advantages involving fields of field of information and communication technology (ICT) and broadcasting industry alongside brightening Bangladesh image. Experts and officials said the country's first geostationa...

Bangladesh . . . in time and space: Syed Badrul Ahsan

The launch of the Bangabandhu-1 satellite into space is that particular moment in history when we must celebrate ourselves. In these past ten years or so, we as a people have been busy, under a political leadership wedded to the noble principles upon which this nation was founded through the tragedy of war nearly a half century ago, in consolida...

Bangabandhu Satellite 1 is the new milestone of Bangladesh's advancement: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has greeted the countrymen for successful launching of Bangladesh's first communication satellite into space, saying that it added a new milestone to the path of continued advancement of the country. "Bangladesh entered a new era as a proud member of the satellite club from today as the flag of Bangladesh has al...