The Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) said on May 30that Lockheed Martin, the US company that built the satellite, willhand over control of it to VNPT in July.
The 300million USD VINASAT-2 uses A2100 technology, one of the most modernsatellite technologies currently in use, and has a lifespan of 15 years.
It was fired into orbit from the launch pad in Kourou in Guyana , South America, at 5:13 am on May 16 ( Vietnam time).-VNA