MOSCOW, January 30th. / TASS /. Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov congratulated “Roskosmos” with the successful launch of the spacecraft Eutelsat 9B, noting that Russian missiles are still indispensable for Europeans. Thus he wrote on his official page on Twitter.
“Congratulations” Roskosmos “with another successful launch! Sanctions sanctions and the Europeans are launching their own communication satellites by our missiles,” – wrote the minister.
Carrier rocket “Proton-M” was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 01:20 MSK. The total time from the start of the rocket launch to separation of the satellite from the booster was 9 hours 12 minutes. The telecommunications spacecraft Eutelsat 9B has been successfully launched into the target orbit at an altitude of about 35 thousand. Km of the upper stage “Breeze-M”.
The launch was done under a contract signed in October 2015, a subsidiary of Space Center. Khrunichev International Launch Services (ILS) from one of the leading satellite operators Eutelsat Communications (Paris, France). Over the past 15 years with the help of a rocket “Proton” was launched 11 satellites of Eutelsat.
The spacecraft Eutelsat 9B is designed for digital television and data services in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. The satellite is made by the French defense and space division of the European consortium Airbus Group – the company Airbus Defense and Space (Toulouse, France). The launch weight of the spacecraft – about 5162 kg.
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