After a delay due to the flight control unit on the Breeze M upper stage exibiting anomalous behavior during preflight testing, now has been rescheduled for this upcoming Wednesday evening (12/28) a Proton M/Breeze M rocket with AMC-23 communications satellite for SES Americom, is scheduled to launch from Launch Pad 39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Launch is scheduled for 9:28 p.m. EST. Spacecraft Separation is approximately 9 hours, 20 minutes after liftoff AMC-23 a Spacebus 4000 platform built by Alcatel Alenia Space is a high-power hybrid C/Ku-band satellite that will serve local, transcontinental and transoceanic customers throughout the Pacific Region, including North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and the islands of the South Pacific. AMC-23 will be located at 172 degrees East replacing Spacenet 4. Satellite Broadcast coverage: AMC-4 at 101°W, transponder 17 C-Band (4040 V) analog Test signals begin about 8:15 p.m. EST. Broadcast starts about 9:05 p.m. EST. For those in Europe: New Skies NSS-7, transponder 9, Ku-band (12509.5 MHz horizontal), 22 degrees West, symbol rate 6.1113, digital Test signals start at 1:15 GMT. Dec 29th Broadcast starts at 2:05 GMT. Dont have a dish to view this? A live webcast of the launch is available at: http://streamvox.streamos.com/vyvx/ils120505/ Addional Coverage: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/proton/amc-23/status.html http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html http://ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/ -- Dishnut-P ==================================================================== Operator of RadioFree Dishnuts - Producer of The Dishnut News heard Saturdays at 10pm EST. on RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network IA-6 (T6) Transponder 1 / 6.2 & 6.8Mhz (4DTV T6-999) WTND-LP 106.3, and many micro LPFM stations. http://dishnuts.net RFD Listen Links: http://dishnuts.net/#Listen Show Archives: (Partly Up) http://dishnuts.net/archive/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Know an art & music fan? Make a donation in their honor this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/.6dcNC/.VHMAA/Zx0JAA/EyMolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Sat subcarrier and net streaming audio programming and locations: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BROADCASTFINDER/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TVRO/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
