Friday evening (9-19) International Launch Services Proton M/Breeze M
rocket is scheduled to launch Nimiq 4 communications satellite for
Telesat, Canada, from Launch Pad 39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Launch is scheduled for 5:48 p.m. EDT.

Spacecraft Separation is approximately 9 hours and 11 minutes after liftoff

Nimiq 4, built by EADS Astrium, France is a Eurostar E3000 bus with 32
channels in Ku-band and 8 channels in Ka-band.
Nimiq 4 has two payloads for Canadian broadcast services. The main
payload will provide specialty television and foreign language
programming. The second payload has six beams covering Canada for such
advanced services as high-definition television. Nimiq satellites are
dedicated to the provision of direct-to-home services for Bell TV.will
be used for SES Americoms "Americom2Home" for Dish Network DBS service.
Nimiq 4 will be located at 82 degrees west.


Satellite Broadcast coverage:

Anik F2 at 111.1°W, transponder 7 C-Band (3980 V) analog

Test signals begin about 5 p.m. EDT
Broadcast starts about 5:25 p.m. EDT.

For those in Europe:
New Skies NSS-7 22.0°W, transponder ENV8/EUH8, Channel AB, Ku-band,
downlink 11684.5 horizontal, symbol rate 5632, digital PAL

Test signals start at 2100 GMT
Broadcast starts at 2125 GMT.


Dont have a dish to view this?

A live webcast of the launch is available at:

http://streamvox.streamos.com/vyvx/ils091808/

Addional Coverage:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html
http://ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/

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