Successful launch of Proton-M with the spacecraft "Asiasat-7"

ROSCOSMOS / ILS - AsiaSat-7 Mission poster.

11/25/2011

AsiaSat-7 launch

November 25 to 23 hours 10 minutes. Moscow with a launcher platform 39 200 Baikonur calculations starting enterprises of rocket and space industry in Russia is produced starting of space rocket "Proton-M" with the upper stage "Breeze-M" and the spacecraft "Asiasat-7."

Asiasat-7 satellite

After regular office from the third stage rocket upper stage "Breeze-M" spacecraft continues removing "Asiasat-7" to the desired orbit.

The Satellite

• Satellite Operator: AsiaSat
• Satellite Manufacturer: Space Systems/Loral
• Purpose: Satellite Broadband
• Platform: SS/L 1300
• Separated Mass: 3,813 kg
• Satellite Design Life: 15 years

Separation of the spacecraft from the upper stage is scheduled for 8 hours 23 minutes Moscow time on 26 November.

Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=18339

Image, Video, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / ILS / Translation: Orbiter.ch.

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