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A powerful, new DIRECTV satellite, launched successfully today from the Pacific Ocean-based Sea Launch platform, will further boost DIRECTVs HD capacity, enabling the industrys HD leader to deliver up to 150 national HD channels when the satellite goes into service this fall. With the additional capacity, DIRECTV will also expand its delivery of local HD channels to more than 100 markets, representing 84 percent of U.S. TV households.
DIRECTV will launch another satellite in 2009 that will enable the nations leading satellite TV service to offer consumers up to 200 national HD channels.
DIRECTV 11, a Boeing 702 model satellite, lifted off from the Odyssey Launch Platform aboard a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket at 3:48 p.m. PDT from the equatorial Pacific launch site at 154 degrees West longitude.

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The DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite  was successfully launched at 22:48 GMT, March 19.
All systems are nominal.

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Live webcast starts at 3:30pm PDT (22:30 GMT).

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Sea Launch is proceeding toward the launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite on Wednesday, March 19, with liftoff planned for 3:48pm PDT (22:48 GMT), at the opening of a 58-minute window.

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Unusual instrument readings during Monday's countdown have forced the launch of the Zenit rocket carrying the DirecTV 11 satellite to be postponed for at least a day.

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The Sea Launch countdown for the launch of the DIRECTV 11 mission is now on hold. We will update this page with the latest information as it becomes available.

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The  launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite, was scheduled  for 22:49 GMT (3:49 pm PDT),  March 17, 2008.

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L+ 0:02:29 Stage 1 Separation
L+ 0:03:52 Payload Fairing Jettison
L+ 0:08:31 Stage 2 Separation
L+ 0:08:41 Block DM 1st Burn Ignition
L+ 0:13:10 Block DM 1st Burn Shutdown
L+ 0:43:10 Block DM 2nd Burn Ignition
L+ 0:50:15 Block DM 2nd Burn Shutdown
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DirecTV 11 Satellite
The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the equatorial Pacific, in preparation for the launch of the DIRECTV 11 broadcast satellite, planned for Monday, March 17. Liftoff is expected at the opening of a 58-minute launch window, at 3:49 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:49 GMT).
Upon arrival at the launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, the team will ballast the platform to launch depth and initiate a 72-hour countdown. During this period, they will perform a final series of tests on the launch system and the spacecraft. At launch, a Zenit-3SL vehicle will insert the 5,923 kg (13,058 lb) DIRECTV 11 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit, on its way to a final orbital location of 99.2 degrees West Longitude. Sea Launch will provide live coverage of the DIRECTV 11 mission via satellite and on the company website, beginning at 3:30 pm PDT (22:30 GMT) on March 17.

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