Azercosmos exports services worth $32.3m

By Azernews

By Ayya Lmahamad

Azerbaijan’s satellite operator Azercosmos exported services worth around $32.3 million to 36 countries in January-September 2021, the Centre for Economic Reforms Analysis and Communication of Azerbaijan reported in its “Export Review” for October.

The company's revenues from the export of services accounted for 91 percent of its total revenues.

The five main countries to which Azercosmos exported services in the first nine months of the year were the U.S. with $9.6 million, France with $7.2 million, the UK with $6.6 million, Malaysia with $3.7 million and the United Arab Emirates with $1.3 million.

Particularly, in September, the company exported services worth $1.5 million to 26 countries.

Established in 2010, Azercosmos is the only satellite operator in the South Caucasus region and provides high-quality satellite services for telecommunications and geographic intelligence.

Azercosmos along with Azerspace-1, Azerspace-2 and Azersky satellites, facilitates the reception of signals from satellites of other satellite operators and via a fiber-optic network.

Earlier, Azercosmos launched a satellite internet platform Azconnexus, which will provide high-quality satellite internet services in Azerbaijan.

Additionally, the company sealed cooperation agreements with various organizations such as the View Satellite Network, Media Holding, SatADSL, Globecast, ViewMedia, Space Engineering, TheAngle, Prime African Media Systems, Satelliteherd, etc. One of Turkey's leading news channels TRT World has started broadcasting via the Azerspace-1 satellite. Azercosmos has signed a commercial agreement with a number of Turkish and Kyrgyz channels as well.