The Americans launched into space two telecommunications satellites, which are designed and assembled Corporation Voeing, taking orders from Hong Kong-based Asia Broadcast Satellite Corporation and satellite communications from France Eutelsat. For the first time for this purpose, the US Air Force used the booster Falcon 9 made at the company SpaceX. This information provided a portal Neelov.
On March was promoted to the first launch, from the Baikonur located at Cape Canaveral, the launch vehicle Falcon 9, which is a creation of the American corporation SpasX. With the power of the rocket into space were sent to a pair of powerful satellites for telecommunication purposes. These satellites are a new development of modern professionals who are equipped with their ion engines and they have been able to get rid of the fuel tanks, as they become absolutely necessary.
After a half hour after the launch of the satellite began to fall away one by one from raketa- carrier. Then they will move, using their personal ion engines that allow them to fly up to a height of about thirty-six thousand kilometers. Only when they reach a predetermined height, experts in the world will be able to configure and test them.
Earlier, the company SpaceX has already been used to launch into orbit a satellite carrier rocket Falcon 9. Then experts sent apparatus which should monitor solar activity. More, when there was a need to deliver a large cargo to the ISS, experts have also applied this carrier rocket Falcon 9.
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