ILS to launch Intelsat spacecraft
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2009, 6:35 AM ET (1035 GMT)
International Launch Services announced Tuesday that it was agreed to launch an Intelsat spacecraft later this year that had previously been scheduled to be launched by a competitor. A Proton M will launch the Intelsat 16 satellite in the fourth quarter of this year. The 2,500-kilogram spacecraft is under construction by Orbital Sciences Corporation and will operate from 58 degrees west in GEO. Intelsat had awarded a contract to Land Launch in 2008 to launch the spacecraft on a Zenit-3SLB. The ILS contract is the latest in a series of recent launch awards to ILS for spacecraft that had previously contracted for launches elsewhere.
International Launch Services announced Tuesday that it was agreed to launch an Intelsat spacecraft later this year that had previously been scheduled to be launched by a competitor. A Proton M will launch the Intelsat 16 satellite in the fourth quarter of this year. The 2,500-kilogram spacecraft is under construction by Orbital Sciences Corporation and will operate from 58 degrees west in GEO. Intelsat had awarded a contract to Land Launch in 2008 to launch the spacecraft on a Zenit-3SLB. The ILS contract is the latest in a series of recent launch awards to ILS for spacecraft that had previously contracted for launches elsewhere.
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