International satellite communications services organization
Intersputnik Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications
Intersputnik logo
Formation
15 November 1971; 52 years ago (15 November 1971)
Legal status
Active
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Membership
25 member states
Official language
Russian
Director General
Ksenia Drozdova[1]
Website
intersputnik.int
The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, commonly known as Intersputnik, is an international satellite communications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of eight formerly socialist states (Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia, and Cuba).
The objective was and continues to be the development and common use of communications satellites. It was created as the Eastern Bloc's response to the Western Intelsat organization. As of 2008 the organization has 25 member states, among them the Federal Republic of Germany as the legal successor of the GDR.
Intersputnik nowadays is a commercially aligned organization. It operates 12 satellites in orbit and 41 transponders. In June 1997 Intersputnik created the Lockheed Martin Intersputnik (LMI) joint venture together with Lockheed Martin, which built and operated the satellites of the same name. In September 2006, Lockheed Martin Intersputnik was acquired by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS).
^"Directorate". Intersputnik.net. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
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