Tag: ILS
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ILS Proton-M launches the highest ever throughput satellite, ViaSat-1
International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket on Wednesday. Launch was on schedule at 18:48 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Proton tasked with deploying the ViaSat-1 telecommunications satellite – the highest throughput satellite ever built – into its GEO transfer orbit, after what will be over nine hours of…
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ILS Proton-M successfully launches with QuetzSat-1
International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket on Thursday, on a mission which is marking their first ILS launch since the Russian workhorse returned to flight. Launch was on schedule at 18:32 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Proton tasked with deploying the QuetzSat-1 telecommunications satellite for SES, after what…
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ILS Proton M in debut shared payload launch with SES-3 and KazSat-2
International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket again on Friday, as the workhorse lofted the SES-3 and KazSat-2 telecommunications satellites – the first “shared” ILS Proton launch – into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was on schedule at 23:16pm UTC, ahead of over nine hours of flight…
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ILS Proton M in debut shared payload launch with SES-3 and KazSat-2
International Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket again on Friday, as the workhorse lofted the SES-3 and KazSat-2 telecommunications satellites – the first “shared” ILS Proton launch – into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was on schedule at 23:16pm UTC, ahead of over nine hours of flight…
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ILS launches Ciel-2 for Canada via Proton-M
The last ILS mission of 2008 has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, as their Proton-M launch vehicle prepares lifted-off from Pad PU-39 of Launch Complex 200. Launch occured on time at 13:43 UTC. The launch phase of the mission will last a total of nine hours, injecting the Ciel-2 communications satellite in to a geostationary…
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ILS Proton M launches with ASTRA IM for long trip to orbit
International Launch Services (ILS) have launched a Russian Proton M launch vehicle from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 20:44 UTC. The vehicle is on a nine hour journey to loft the ASTRA 1M telecommunications satellite into orbit. Click HERE FOR LAUNCH VIDEO AND LIVE COVERAGE The first three stages of the Proton will use a…