MOSCOW, June 10. / TASS /. American Communications Intelsat 31 (Intelsat DLA2) satellite, launched June 9 from Baikonur, separated from the upper stage “Breeze-M” and placed into the calculated orbit, reported today TASS in the press service of the Russian Space Agency.
“Branch spacecraft from the upper stage took place at the estimated time “, – said the state corporation
to launch a satellite into orbit took five inclusions booster.” Breeze-M “. According to the Center for processing and displaying flight information Space Center Khrunichev, the upper stage engine has been running at the time of the first inclusion of 34.5 seconds longer than the estimated time. During the second turn “Briz- M” worked in 23 seconds less than the put.
Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the satellite Intelsat 31 was launched on June 9 at 10:10 MSK from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Nine minutes after the start was separated from the main unit’s missiles as a part of the upper stage “Breeze-M” and the spacecraft
This launch is the first for the “Proton-M” the fourth and last phase of modernization -. This version features . increased carrying capacity
The rocket was supposed to start the morning of June 8, but the launch date was moved to the back for technical reasons – one of the connectors on the media proved faulty. Start repeatedly postponed before – it was planned for the end of 2015, but was postponed until April 2016. Later start assigned to 17, 28 and 31 May, 8 June. The cause of the shifts began to claim the upper stage control system “Breeze-M”.
The satellite weighing more than six tonnes was manufactured by Space Systems Loral and is intended to provide television services in Latin America. The contract for its launch was concluded in March 2013.
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