The satellite Intelsat, which was put into orbit heavy carrier rocket Falcon of the American private company Space X, will be launched in 2017 with the help of Russian “Proton-M”. This is reported on Thursday, 7 April, “News” with reference to the general director of the Khrunichev Center Andrew Kalinowski.
«We have a formal application to launch the Intelsat spacecraft company, which is our long-standing strategic partner. Khrunichev Center, of course, fulfill the order, and the satellite will fly on “Proton” in early 2017 “, -. Said Kalinowski
The publication reports, citing a source in the Russian Space Agency that the decision to change the rocket for a satellite in orbit it was adopted because of the repeated transfer of the launch rocket Falcon heavy class. At the moment, a missile of this type has not passed the test.
Because of the delay with the development of heavy missiles, as noted by “Izvestiya», SpaceX loses is not the first contract. In particular, in March 2016 Satellite operator ViaSat Inc. has decided to withdraw its satellite with the help of the European rocket Ariane 5, and Inmarsat operator also opted for “Proton-M».
4 March another setback ended landing returned stage rocket Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral, the state Florida, with a communication satellite SES-9. The unit itself has been successfully launched into orbit.
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Earlier start postponed four times. Initially, the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the satellite SES-9 was scheduled for February 24 but due to the weather it was postponed for two days. February 26 launch did not take place due to technical problems.
February 29 SpaceX for the same reasons in the emergency mode has canceled the launch of the Falcon 9 for a few seconds before the start. March 2 launch was postponed due to high winds.
A previous attempt to step back at the Falcon 9 launch January 17 and ended in failure. The first stage is separated from the carrier rocket three minutes after the start. After landing on the platform at the SpaceX said that when landing broke one of the stages of support.
March 14 rocket “Proton-M” was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome modules ExoMars project.
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