Azerbaijan's space program

885 of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated May 3, 2010, with the aim of ensuring the development, launch, management and operation of telecommunication satellites.

In 1927, the decree of conducting astronomical expeditions in the Azerbaijan SSR was issued for the purpose of selecting the southern regional observatory of the Leningrad Institute of Astronomy.

Benashvili, employee of Azerbaijan scientific society, studied astroclimate in Khankendi, Shusha and Lachin regions, but the lack of cloudless nights dissuaded them from this idea.

[1] In order to determine the location of the future observatory, the last uninterrupted expeditions were organized under the leadership of Hajibey Sultanov at the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Azerbaijan SSR AS (Academy of Sciences) in March 1953, and the final decision about the suitable location in Shamakhi was made in June of the same year.

[2] In 1965, he was appointed the head of the Department of Space Vehicles, and from 1966, the chairman of the USSR State Commission for Test Flights of Piloted Ships.

[6][7][8][9] Azerbaijani astronomer and astrophysicist Nadir Ibrahimov made great achievements in the study of planets (Mars, Venus and Jupiter's satellite Io) as a result of his observations in the 2-meter telescope of the Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory.

[10] A crater on the surface of Mars was named in his honour at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Patras, Greece in August 1982.

[12] Fuzuli Farajov dedicated a certain part of his life to the design and production of flying machines of the XXI century.

[13] General Karim Karimov, academician Tofig Ismayilov, engineers Vafadar Babayev, Izzateli Agayev, Ferdowsi Karimov, department head of "Molniya" design office Nazim Guliyev, and Shakir Asgarov, who looked after security issues at the Baikonur cosmodrome, also took part in the creation of the spaceship.

[15] Manarov, who made his first flight on December 21, 1987, under the command of cosmonaut Vladimir Titov as a flight engineer aboard the "Soyuz TM-4" spacecraft of the "Mir" interorbital station, returned to Earth exactly 1 year — 365 days and 23 hours later, making it the longest time in space for that time.

[18] "Azerkosmos", the first satellite operator in Azerbaijan and the South Caucasus, during the two years of its existence, worked in the direction of providing television and radio broadcasting and telecommunication services in the country, as well as providing highly reliable communication platforms that meet the requirements of government and corporate clients.