Angola’s national communications satellite, ANGOSAT-2, has begun receiving signals and conducting operational testing at the Boane Earth Station in Maputo Province, Mozambique, marking the first active technical deployment of the satellite in the country.
The testing is running in parallel with the signing of two bilateral cooperation memoranda between Angola and Mozambique, concluded on the sidelines of the 5th National Communications Conference in Maputo on 23 June 2026.
The agreements were signed in a ceremony attended by Mozambique’s Minister of Telecommunications, Transport and ICT, Américo Muchanga, and Angola’s Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Mário Oliveira.
Angola’s commercial strategy for ANGOSAT-2 is governed by Presidential Dispatch No. 11/23, which authorised the satellite’s commercialisation and established a revenue-sharing framework: 50% of satellite income supports the National Space Programme, 40% goes to the national treasury, and 10% is allocated to a social fund for workers in the communications sector.
The Mozambique and Namibia engagements, taken together, represent the most active period of cross-border commercial activity for ANGOSAT-2 since the satellite entered operations three years ago.
Source: https://spaceinafrica.com/2026/06/22/angosat-2-begins-operational-tests-in-mozambique-as-angola-and-mozambique-sign-bilateral-space-and-ict-agreements/