They’re saying it’s too early to say the satellite’s been completely lost.

AngoSat-1  powered by a Ukrainian rocket was launched from Russia’s Baikonur  space pad.

Energia, the Russian company that built the satellite, says it has yet to identify the problem that caused loss of contact.

Contact with the satellite was initially established after it was put into orbit

Shortly afterwards, however, the $300-million communications satellite stopped responding.

Marketing director at Infrasat, the Angolan company overseeing the project Da Costa N’ganga saysnthey will need to wait 24 hours to know for sure what has happened.

Last month, Russia lost all communications with its own Meteor-M weather satellite.

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