Satellite News

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-49; Date: 20 January 2011, 2210 UTC; Launch Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, USA. The launch of the classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office was successful.

Launched aboard a Zenith-3 SB rocket from Baikonur on 20 January, Russian weather satellite Electro-L has successfully separated from the Fregat-SB upper stage and reached the targeted orbit at 2128 UTC.

Broadband satellite services company Hughes Communications Inc. has reportedly hired Barclays Capital to advise on a sale of the company.

Satellite Broadband Ireland (SBI) has signed a commercial agreement with Eutelsat Communications to sell broadband services via KA-SAT.

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Rocket: Zenit-3SB [Zenit-3F]; Payload: Elektro-L 1 [GOMS No. 2]; Date: 20 January 2011, 1229 UTC; Launch Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The separation of the satellite from the Fregat-SB upper stage and its insertion into geosynchronous orbit was expected at 2128 UTC.
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