The SES6 satellite has a launch mass of about 6,100kg. It will have a wingspan of 40m once its solar arrays are deployed in orbit. The satellite is designed for a life span of 15 years. The satellite has 43 C-band and 48 Ku-band transponders. It also has five steerable Ku-band beams, which include four beams for the Americas and one beam covering the Atlantic Ocean region.
International Launch Services (ILS) successfully placed the SES-6 satellite into a super-synchronous transfer orbit (SSTO) today, for SES of Luxembourg. With this launch, ILS, a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry, completed its second SSTO mission with the Proton vehicle. The Proton launch vehicle, carrying the SES-6 satellite, lifted off from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday at 15:18:31 local time (09:18:31 GMT and 05:18:31 EDT). SES-6, built on Astriums reliable E3000 platform, weighed over 6 metric tons at liftoff. After a 15-hour, 31-minute mission, the satellite was placed into the target orbit by the Proton launcher. Read more
A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying a SES-6 telecommunications satellite has lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Khrunichev space company said on Monday. Read more
International Launch Services (ILS) recently announced that communications satellite SES 6 will be launched on June 3, 2013 at 21:18 UT from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The satellite will feature an E3000 Platform with a separated spacecraft mass of 6,100 kilograms. Read more
The SES-6 satellite will be launched on Proton M launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on June 3. The launch will take place at 15.18 Baikonur time (9.18 GMT). A live website cast is available at a special website beginning at 9.00 GMT. Read more
The SES-6 satellite is scheduled for launch in 2013 to replace NSS-806 and provide significant capacity expansion. The satellites expanded Ku-band payload will support DTH platforms, VSAT services and government digital inclusion programmes throughout Latin America. The C-band payload will add incremental capacity to support channel growth at this key cable neighbourhood. Read more