ILS - Inmarsat-5F2 Launch Mission poster.
02/01/2015
Rocket Proton-M carrying spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2 launch
February 1, 2015 in 15 hours 31 minutes Moscow time from the launch pad 200 Baikonur Cosmodrome starting calculations of rocket and space industry in Russia, the launch of the carrier rocket Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and telecommunications spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2.
Proton-M rockets launches Inmarsat-5F2 satellite to space
After the regular separation from the third stage of the launch vehicle orbital assembly composed by the upper stage Breeze-M and the spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2 - continues to autonomous flight.
Proton-M carrying spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2 in flight
Further removal of spacecraft into the target orbit is carried out by the operation of the propulsion system booster.
Estimated time of separation of the spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2 from the upper stage - 7:00 Moscow time 02 minutes 2 February 2015. Was commissioned - the first in 2015 and 402 th in the history of flying rocket Proton.
Spacecraft Inmarsat-5F2
Carrier rocket Proton and the upper stage Breeze-M were developed and are manufactured commercially Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Research and Production Space Center of MV Khrunichev. Upgraded Proton-M, equipped with the upper stage Breeze-M, is able to deliver on the geosynchronous transfer orbit a payload of more than 6 tons.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/21269/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency/ROSCOSMOS/RT//Boeing/Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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