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CX2ACB > SAT 05.10.03 18:03l 35 Lines 1281 Bytes #-7685 (0) @ AMSAT
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Subj: Boeing Launches New Galaxy
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Sent: 031005/1550Z @:CX2ACB.MVD.URY.SA #:29031 [Montevideo] $:ANS-278.05
From: CX2ACB@CX2ACB.MVD.URY.SA
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 278.05 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. October 5, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-278.05
October 1, a successful launch orbited Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1, a Boeing
601HP satellite built by Boeing for PanAmSat Corporation, Wilton,
Conn., and JSAT Corporation of Japan. The satellite will provide
coverage over North America, Central America, Alaska and Hawaii from an
orbital slot between the Hawaiian Islands and the U.S. west coast.
The 4,090 kg (8,998 lbs) satellite rocketed to geosynchronous transfer
orbit aboard a Zenit-3SL provided by Sea Launch Company, LLC. Lift-off
occurred at 9:03 p.m. PDT (4:03 a.m. GMT) from the Sea Launch Odyssey
Launch Platform positioned on the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The
spacecraft received its first signals at about 10:03 p.m. PDT at a
ground station at Fucino, Italy, confirming normal operation.
Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 with a final orbit slot at 127 degrees west
longitude is the 207th Boeing-built commercial communications satellite
launched to date. Forty years ago this year, the Boeing-built Syncom
ushered in a revolution as the world's first geosynchronous
communications satellite.
[ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information.]
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