Twoller
03-21-2010, 09:23 AM
Recall this thread?
NASA Budget Cuts: 23,000 Americans lose jobs (http://www.saveourstate.info/showthread.php?t=1215&highlight=obama+space+program)
Now the Russians have the job that should have gone to NASA. We can guess that Russia did not put this thing into orbit for free.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14938633&PageNum=0
Russian Proton rocket carries American satellite to orbit
21.03.2010, 07.14
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian space vehicle Proton-M launched from Baikonur on Saturday has successfully put the EchoStar-14 American communication satellite into the planned orbit.
EchoStar-14 separated from the Briz-M booster at 06:37 Moscow time, a Roskosmos Federal Space Agency source reported.
The satellite will take its place at a longitude of 119 degrees west in its geostationary orbit.
EchoStar based on the satellite platform LS-1300 was made by the Space Systems/Loral company for the American satellite operator EchoStar. It is designed for television signal transmission to 14 million TV spectators of the DISH Network American TV company.
The satellite is expected to work in orbit for 15 years. It weighs 6,384 kilogrammes. It is equipped with 103 Ku-band transponders.
The Proton-M rocket and the Briz-M booster are made by the Khrunichev state space scientific and production centre. The vehicle has three stages. Its launch weight is about 700 tonnes. The International Launch Services (ILS) company deals with marketing of Protons at the market of space services. The controlling stake in it belongs to the Khrunichev centre.
It was the fourth Proton-M launch this year, and the 355th in its history, a source at the scientific and production centre said.
For ILS it is the second in 2010 and the 58th since the beginning of the use of Protons in April 1996.
NASA Budget Cuts: 23,000 Americans lose jobs (http://www.saveourstate.info/showthread.php?t=1215&highlight=obama+space+program)
Now the Russians have the job that should have gone to NASA. We can guess that Russia did not put this thing into orbit for free.
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14938633&PageNum=0
Russian Proton rocket carries American satellite to orbit
21.03.2010, 07.14
MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian space vehicle Proton-M launched from Baikonur on Saturday has successfully put the EchoStar-14 American communication satellite into the planned orbit.
EchoStar-14 separated from the Briz-M booster at 06:37 Moscow time, a Roskosmos Federal Space Agency source reported.
The satellite will take its place at a longitude of 119 degrees west in its geostationary orbit.
EchoStar based on the satellite platform LS-1300 was made by the Space Systems/Loral company for the American satellite operator EchoStar. It is designed for television signal transmission to 14 million TV spectators of the DISH Network American TV company.
The satellite is expected to work in orbit for 15 years. It weighs 6,384 kilogrammes. It is equipped with 103 Ku-band transponders.
The Proton-M rocket and the Briz-M booster are made by the Khrunichev state space scientific and production centre. The vehicle has three stages. Its launch weight is about 700 tonnes. The International Launch Services (ILS) company deals with marketing of Protons at the market of space services. The controlling stake in it belongs to the Khrunichev centre.
It was the fourth Proton-M launch this year, and the 355th in its history, a source at the scientific and production centre said.
For ILS it is the second in 2010 and the 58th since the beginning of the use of Protons in April 1996.