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RE: KA-SAT satellite

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International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the KA-SAT satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The ILS Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:51 a.m. local time (4:51 p.m. EST, 10:51 p.m. in Paris on December 26). After a 9 hour 12 minute mission, the Breeze M successfully released the KA-SAT satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
The launch of the KA-SAT satellite marks the 8th ILS Proton launch of the year; a record number of commercial launches for ILS. This was also the 64th commercial launch to date for ILS and the 12th Proton launch for the year. The Proton Breeze M vehicle is built by Khrunichev Space Centre of Moscow, one of the pillars of the Russian aerospace industry and majority owner of ILS. Proton has a heritage of 363 missions since its maiden flight in 1965.
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The ILS Proton rocket with the KA-SAT communications satellite was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 21:51 GMT, 26th December, 2010.

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Live coverage of "KA-SAT" Mission. Baikonur cosmodrome.

Start: 21:50 December 26, 2010 (Moscow time, MSK).
End 01:50 December 27, 2010 (Moscow time, MSK).
Launch time: 00:51:00 December 27, 2010 (Moscow time, MSK).

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Ka-Sat net-dedicated spacecraft ready for launch

Europe is about to get a second satellite dedicated to delivering broadband internet connections.
The six-tonne Ka-Sat will be launched atop a Proton rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan in a flight expected to last nine hours and 12 minutes.
The Eutelsat-operated spacecraft will concentrate its services on customers in the so-called "not-spots" of Europe.
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An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage is scheduled to launcg the KA-SAT communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 21:51 GMT, 26th December, 2010.

Eutelsat's KA-SAT is the first, in Europe, of a new generation of high throughput satellites optimised for consumer broadband services and targeting users located beyond range of high-speed terrestrial networks. Fully-operating in Ka-band frequencies and with total throughout of 70 Gigabits per second, the satellite will be located at Eutelsat's 9 degrees East position. Through a configuration of 82 spotbeams and a ground infrastructure of ten gateways connected to the Internet, service will be provided across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. In addition to supporting expansion of Eutelsat's Tooway consumer broadband service, KA-SAT will open new resources for telecom operators, broadcasters and ISPs, for data and video services.
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