RSCC's Dubna Satellite Communications Center
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and the RSCC (Russian Satellite Communications Company) have extended the agreement under which RSCC provides key services to control Eutelsat’s satellites. RSCC manages satellite control activities for Eutelsat from its Dubna Satellite Communications Center (SCC) near Moscow. The new five-year contract, which will take effect in September 2012, was signed in Paris during World Satellite Business Week by Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat CEO, and Yuri Prokhorov, CEO of RSCC. It extends the collaboration on satellite control between both companies which began in 1997 when RSCC was selected by Eutelsat to be a partner in its international ground station network following an international consultation. Operations for Eutelsat began in Dubna in 1998. The facilities located today at RSCC’s center are comprised of eight antenna systems for simultaneous monitoring and control of ten Eutelsat satellites in geostationary orbit.