The throwing produced to itself to 01:48 hour of Moscow (21,48 Friday GMT, September 19) from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in territory kazajo.

It was foreseen that the rocket was putting in orbit to the Canadian satellite the previous day. Nevertheless, the throwing had to be postponed due to the bad functioning of the system of control of throwing.

The satellite Nimiq-4 weighs 4.850 kilograms and one hopes that it should have a period of life of 15 years. Canada has been developed by the European company EADS Astrium for Telesat, a communications operator for satellite that provides the data transmission, as well as the services of television and broadcasting for North America.

The satellite is provided with 32 transpondedores of band Ku and of 8 repeaters of band Ka.

The rocket propellent Proton - m, of three stages and with a weight of 700 tons throwing, and the repeater Briz-M they are of manufacture of the center Khrunichev.


(SatCesc, 22/09/08)