BTRC Chairman Shahjahan Mahmud says Bangladesh's 'Bangabandhu Satellite' will be propelled from Florida's Cape Canaveral on May 4.
Private space flight and innovation organization SpaceX has affirmed the dispatch date for Bangladesh's first satellite, he told.
SpaceX had already intended to dispatch the satellite utilizing Falcon-9 rockets on Dec 16 of a year ago, however the dispatch was delayed because of harm from Hurricane Irma.
It takes two months to set up the cushion for jump starting any satellite out of the SpaceX office in Florida.
The 'Bangabandhu' Satellite got the green light at a bureau meeting in 2015. BTRC marked an advance arrangement worth Tk 20 billion with Thales Group to purchase 'satellite frameworks.'
It marked a Tk 4 billion credit manage HSBC in September a year ago to send the satellite into space.
The satellite is relied upon to spare Tk 14 million a year that is at present spent on leasing remote satellites.
The satellite will contain 40 transponders; Bangladesh will utilize 20 and lease the rest.
The two ground stations that will control the satellite will be worked at Gazipur's Joydebpur and Rangamati's Betbunia on the land claimed by Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd.
The ground stations for the satellite have been worked at Gazipur's Joydebpur and Rangamati's Betbunia.