AzerSat-1 (Azerbaijani: AzərSat-1) will be Azerbaijan's first satellite in space. Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, it is to be launched into orbit in July or August 2012 from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana at orbital positions 46° East.Arianespace will launch the satellite through Ariane 5ECA rocket carrier. The satellite will cover Europe and significant part of Asian countries and Africa and will have transmission for TV, radio broadcasting and the internet.

Construction of the satellite will cost US$ 120 million and to be established by Orbital Sciences Corporation.Arianespace’s president Jean-Yves Le Gall emphasized that the weight of the satellite would be 3 tonnes. In April 2011, Export-Import Bank of the United States has approved financing of this project as 85 percent of construction cost which will be provided to the Azerbaijani side in the form of a loan, while the remaining 15 percent will be paid by state funds. The funds will be issued to Azerkosmos OJSC.

The satellite will be based on Orbital’s flight-proven STAR-2 platform and will generate approximately five kilowatts of payload power for 36 active transponders. Upon completion of in-orbit testing, operational control of the satellite will be handed over to Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and IT. Term of exploitation of the satellite will be 20 years. Satellite has 4 fixed beams in Ku and C bands, coverage maps published on internet.