Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation will make an Angosat-2 telecommunications satellite for Angola by the end of 2021 to replace its predecessor Angosat-1 that is out of operation, Deputy Head of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos for Relations with State Authorities Sergei Dubik said on Tuesday. This reported by TASS.

"The Angosat-2 satellite is currently being manufactured. According to the latest data, the planned term, as reported by Energia CEO Nikolai Sevastyanov, is the end of 2021," the Roscosmos official said in the lower house of Russia’s parliament.

The Angolan side was choosing the producer of the new satellite between two enterprises: the Energia Space Rocket Corporation and the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Company, he said.

"As a result, they decided that Energia will be making the satellite," the Roscosmos official said.

Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin earlier said that the Angosat-2 would differ radically from its predecessor. He noted that the issues of relations between the Energia Space Rocket Corporation and the Angolan customer were also tackled at the inter-governmental level.