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Anik F1R will be positioned at the 107.3 degrees West location in geostationary orbit to provide broadcasters, governments, corporations, and small businesses with telecommunications services over a large zone covering Canada and the continental US.



The spacecraft will have a launch mass of 4.5 tonnes, and a solar array span of 36 metres once deployed in orbit. They provide the spacecraft power of more than 10 kW at the end of its 15-year mission lifetime.

Anik F1R is based on the E3000 version platform of the highly successful Eurostar communications satellite family that has been ordered by most of the world’s major satellite operators. Twenty-seven Eurostar spacecraft have already been launched and have proven highly reliable in operational service. This is the first of two Anik spacecraft built by EADS Astrium for Telesat.

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A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Briz-M acceleration unit, is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur space centre on September 8 at 22:53 GMT (Sept. 9th 1:53 a.m. Moscow time), will put a Canadian satellite into orbit.

Vyacheslav Davidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said a government commission that met at Baikonur last Sunday decided to bring the carrier rocket to the launch pad on the morning of September 5.
The session was chaired by Yevgeny Kushner, the director of the space centre.
Mike Minhas, manager of the Anik program of Telesat-Canada, told the commission that all independent operations for the spacecraft had been completed.
The satellite was placed on the carrier rocket on August 25.

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The Proton launch vehicle will inject the Anik F1R satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit, using a five-burn Breeze M mission design.
The first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent trajectory to place the Breeze M fourth stage, with the satellite, into a suborbital trajectory, from which the Breeze M will place itself and the spacecraft into a circular reference orbit of 173 km, inclined at 51.5 degrees.
The satellite will then be propelled to its transfer orbit by additional burns of the Breeze M. Following separation from the Breeze M, the spacecraft will perform a series of liquid apogee engine burns to raise perigee, lower inclination and circularize the orbit at the geostationary altitude of 35,786 km.

Spacecraft Separation: Approximately 9 hours, 11 minutes after liftoff

Target Orbit at Separation:
Apogee: 35,786 km
Perigee: 3,200 km
Inclination: 10 degrees


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An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the Anik F1R communications spacecraft for the Canadian operator Telesat, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on September 8th at 21:53 GMT.

The EADS Astrium-built satellite will be used for telecommunications, TV broadcasting and internet services across Canada and North America.

-- Edited by Blobrana at 14:20, 2005-09-04

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