Commercial service is scheduled to follow between July and September.
ACeS serves the same region.
Jrarat Pingclasai, ABCN's president and chief executive officer, said 12 Laotian engineers had completed one-year training courses at Thailand's Kasetsart University on satellite communications, telecommunications, wireless communications and the English language. The American company is a major global supplier of satellite systems. While in Thailand, the engineers will also be given field training alongside Thai counterparts. When the L-Star satellite was launched into geostationary orbit, the engineers would be the main team controlling the satellite from an earth station in Vientiane, Mr Jrarat said. The cost of training the team totalled 15 million baht, with instruction continuing for another three to five years.