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RE: W7 Satellite

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International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the W7 satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:19 p.m. local time (9:19 a.m. EST, 3:19 p.m. in Paris, 14:19 GMT). After a 9 hour 12 minute mission, the Breeze M successfully released the W7 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
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The Proton Breeze M rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS) was launched on schedule yesterday at 14.19 GMT, 24 hours later than expected.
On board was the 5.6 tonne communications satellite known as W7 owned by Eutelsat, which after just nine hours and twelve minutes was placed into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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A Proton-M rocket carrying the W-7 French telecom satellite was launched from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 5:19 p.m. Moscow time on Tuesday, Khrunichev Aerospace Centre spokesman Alexander Bobrenyov told Itar-Tass.
The booster unit and the satellite separated from the rocket on a sub-orbiting trajectory, he said.
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TLE Data

W7
1 36101U 09065A   09328.74834125 -.00000064  00000-0  00000+0 0    11
2 36101 049.1618 287.2290 7211237 359.6517 359.7183 02.28981631    07

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Proton-M / Breeze-M Launch with Eutelsat W7

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This main engine start-up is the first of five main burns

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Confirmation of main engine start up.

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confirmation of Payload fairing jettison.

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Stage two and three separation

All systems nominal

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First and second stage separation