On having reached the 35.786 kilometers height on the terrestrial surface, the satellite promoted by the block of acceleration Briz-M, separated of the rocket and initiated the suborbital maneuver with an angle of inclination of 51,5 grades.

The acceleration module will get connected in four occasions up to reaching the provisional orbit, in which the satellite will get rid of the Briz-M and by its own propellent it will be located in the geostationary orbit foreseen to a 36.000 kilometers height.

The satellite Sirius-4, of 4.400 kilograms and a useful life of at least 15 years, was made by the company Lockheed Martin on the base of the platform A2100AX for order of the European worker of satellite communication SES SIRIUS AB.

SES SIRIUS belongs to one of the biggest world groups of satellite communication, SES ASTRA (75 %) and the Swedish state enterprise Swedish Space Corporation (25 %).

The thrown device is the biggest of the series Sirius and it will allow to offer the finished bogey of services of telecommunication to clients of Europe and the north of Africa.


(18/11/07)