Sea Launch AG and Eutelsat announced an agreement...
Sea Launch AG and Eutelsat announced an agreement to launch the Eutelsat 3B (E3B) spacecraft in April 2014, said Sea Launch in a news release Tuesday (http://bit.ly/100i0v4). The E3B will use the Sea Launch Zenith-3L launch system and launch from…
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the ocean-based Odyssey launch platform. The E3B will operate in the C-, Ku- and Ka-bands with high levels of operational flexibility to serve video, data, Internet and telecom customers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of South America, they said. “This new contract increases the flexibility we need to pursue our in-orbit expansion plan of six new satellites by end 2015 that will diversify our overall resources, increase our operational flexibility and further raise in-orbit security,” said Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen in a statement. The E3B will operate from Eutelsat’s orbital slot at 3 degrees east and have a separated launch mass of more than 6 metric tons.