Proton Ready To Launch AMC-15 Bird From Baikonur

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AMC-15 is the 25th A2100 delivered to satellite operators around the world and the 10th A2100 delivered to SES Americom.

Newtown PA (SPX) Oct 11, 2004
The AMC-15 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for SES Americom of Princeton, NJ, is ready for launch Oct. 15, 2004 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Proton/Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services, a Lockheed Martin joint venture.

AMC-15 is the 25th A2100 delivered to satellite operators around the world and the 10th A2100 delivered to SES Americom. AMC-15 features one of America's first payloads operating at the Ka-band frequency carrying 12 125-MHz Ka-band spot beams along with 24 36-MHz transponders of Ku-band capacity. Americom has an agreement with EchoStar Communications, a U.S. direct broadcast system operator, to use both payloads on AMC-15.

AMC-15 is one of four Lockheed Martin-built satellites ILS is launching in 2004 to expand SES Americom's world-wide fleet of satellites, which provide global distribution of cable, broadcast television and radio programming, mobile communications, business television, broadband data and telecommunications services.

AMC-10 and AMC-11 were successfully launched on Atlas IIAS vehicles in February and May 2004, and AMC-16 is scheduled to be launched on an Atlas V in December 2004. Based on the award-winning A2100 satellite series manufactured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, Newtown, Pa., AMC-15 has a design life of 15 years.

The Lockheed Martin A2100 geosynchronous spacecraft series is designed to meet a wide variety of commercial and government telecommunications needs ranging from Ka-band/broadband services and fixed satellite services in C-band and Ku-band payload configurations, to high-power direct broadcast services using the Ku-band frequency spectrum and S-band mobile satellite services.

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Brazil In Space: Enlisting Public Support

Brasilia, Brazil (UPI) Oct 11, 2004
Brazil does not want the world to misunderstand its space or nuclear programs, because both have only peaceful and civilian objectives in mind, according to Eduardo Campos, Brazil's Minister of Science and Technology.

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