From the space station at Cape Canaveral, on May 25, at 22:35 Yerevan time, the SpaceX spacecraft launched the first satellite of Armenia into orbit, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday.

He explained that this happened with the cooperation of the Armenian state company Geocosmos and the Spanish company Satlantis.

“Armenia is entering the era of space activities,” Pashinyan added. He expressed the hope that the rich history in this area will be restored, probably the name in mind is the experience of the Soviet cosmonautics.