This upcoming Thursday morning (6-23), Sea Launch is scheduled to launch
Intelsat Americas 8 (Telstar 8 to most of us) communications satellite
for Intelsat on a Zenit-3SL rocket from the
Odyssey Launch Platform positioned on the equator in the Pacific Ocean.
Launch window opens at 8:58 a.m. EDT.
Spacecraft separation 29 minutes after lift off.
Intelsat Americas 8 has 28 C-band and 36 Ku-band transponders, as well
as 24 Ka-band spot beams. Built on Space Systems/Loral's (SS/L)1300 bus,
the spacecraft has a total end-of-life power of 16 Kw. IA-8 is a
replacement for Telstar 4 at 89 degrees.
This is Sea Launch's fifth mission for Loral and the first with Intelsat.
Broadcast coverage:
(MPEG2 DIGITAL BROADCAST)
IA-6 (Telstar 6) @ 93 degrees West, transponder K4/D9 Ku band (11818.5
Mhz Horizontal)
Symbol Rate: 5.632
Audio: Channel 1 = English Channel 2 = English
Test signals start at 8 a.m. EDT.
Broadcast starts at 8:30 a.m. EDT.
Don't have a dish, a webcast of launch is available at:
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html
Additional coverage at:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/ia8/status.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html
http://www.sea-launch.com/current_launch.html
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