Lancement Proton-M / EchoStar-15 - 10 juillet 2010

Preparing for the launching of the EchoStar -15 " : At Baikonur began filling booster Breeze -M "

05.07.2010

Early this morning, gathered a space rocket ( ILV ), " Proton- M " , with the attached upper stage Briz- M " and spacecraft EchoStar- 15 ( " EchoStar -15 ), was transferred from the assembly- test facility ( MIK92 - A50) for technical gas station.

Now at a gas station, located at the site in 1992 Baikonur , Russian Space Agency experts perform tanking low pressure booster Breeze -M ". This complex technical operation should last two days.

Operations with the Breeze " on TPS complete cycle of a space rocket Proton - M " , which was provided to the processing facility within the launcher campaign " EchoStar -15 and took about three weeks . All planned work carried out in accordance with the previously approved schedule and carried out by highly qualified experts at the Center Khrunichev together with staff of other enterprises Space Agency and the foreign partners of the Space Systems / Loral, RUAG Space, International Launch Services.

After filling the upper stage Proton -M " will not return in the assembly and testing facility , and will be prepared to move to the launch pad.

Decision on readiness Proton -M " spacecraft " EchoStar- 15 " to export to the launch facility will state commission . The meeting of the State Commission to be held tomorrow evening at the launch site .

Start the Proton - M rocket with the spacecraft telecommunications connection " EchoStar -15 " , manufactured Space Systems / Loral on the order of U.S. satellite operator EchoStar, is scheduled for 22.40 Moscow time July 10, 2010 . This will be the seventh flight of the Russian carrier rocket Proton since the beginning of the year .

The contract for this launch the company has signed International Launch Services Inc. (ILS). ILS Company was incorporated in 1995 in the USA . ILS headquarters is located in Reston, Virginia . ILS has exclusive marketing rights in the global market of the Russian rocket heavy class " Proton ". In May 2008 a controlling stake in ILS owned Federal State Unitary Enterprise " State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev , a developer and manufacturer of Proton launch vehicle and upper stage Briz - M ".

22.40 Moscow time July 10, 2010

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