The Russians restored communications with Angola's telecommunication satellite that had been launched with a Russian missile on December 26, but soon after it had lost contact with him.
AngoSat-1 is Africa's first satellite, which has cost more than 286 million and a loss would be a blow to both Angola and Russia's space prestige.
Russian energy company Energia announced, according to the BBC and Reuters, that it started on December 29 to receive telemetry data from the satellite and that "all the parameters of its systems are normal". The announcement gives no further information on why satellite communications have been lost for two days.
At the end of November, Russia had lost its new meteorological satellite Meteor-M, as well as 18 other micro-satellites in other countries, due to a human error in the planning of the launch.
Earlier the Kremlin spokesman said that he was investigating both the November and December incidents.
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