Monday, October 21, 2013

Launch of "Proton" with U.S. satellite postponed again - BBC News

Baikonur postponed the launch of the Russian carrier rocket “Proton-M” with American communications satellite Sirius FM6. Launch postponed at the request of the U.S. side on October 25.

launch of a U.S. satellite was to be held on October 20. However, the U.S. side has identified a hardware malfunction on board the satellite launch and asked to transfer to the reserve day – October 21. Later, according to ITAR-TASS, the start was delayed again.

Sirius FM6 – super-power broadcasting satellite, designed by Space Systems / Loral for the US-based Sirius XM Radio. Recent satellite broadcasts music, sports, news, and other radio stations in the continental United States and Canada. U.S. launch of the satellite is to become the seventh launch rocket “Proton” in 2013 and the 390th start in its flight history. In addition, it is the second launch after crash July 2, 2013.

rocket “Proton” for the sixth time will be used to launch a payload of Sirius-XM. In addition, it will be the 27th launch of “Proton” with the spacecraft, manufactured on the basis of platform SS / L.

for the company International Launch Services Inc. (ILS), which provides the global market marketing services to launch rocket “Proton” (majority shareholder is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev”), the upcoming launch will be the sixth in 2013, and 83 – m launch rocket “Proton” from the beginning of its commercial operation in April 1996.

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