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Launch on Schedule.

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A new Telesat satellite is set to launch today. The Nimiq 4, which has been leased by Bell TV, formerly known as Bell Expressvu, to provide digital satellite television services, is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhastan at 21:48 GMT.

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The launch of the Proton M launch vehicle has been postponed to 21:48 UT, 19th September.
A fault was in the LV control system was detected during prelaunch tests.

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A Proton M launch vehicle, utilising a 5-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, with the Nimiq 4 satellite on board, at 21:47 GMT, 18th September,  2008.
The first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent trajectory to place the Breeze M fourth stage and the Nimiq 4 communications satellite into a suborbital trajectory from which the Breeze M will then place itself and the spacecraft into a low Earth circular parking orbit. Once Nimiq 4 is in the parking orbit, it will be injected into a geosynchronous transfer orbit following four additional burns of the Breeze M.

Target Orbit at Separation:
Apogee: 35,786 km
Perigee:  4,400 km
Inclination: 12.5 degrees

Spacecraft Separation:
Approximately 9 hours, 11 minutes after liftoff

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International Launch Services (ILS) and Telesat, one of the world's leading satellite operators, announced today they are teaming up for the fifth time, to launch the Nimiq 4 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle.
ILS, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) joint venture, is scheduled to launch the satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2008.
The Nimiq 4 (Telesat Canada) spacecraft is a Eurostar E3000 model built by EADS Astrium, similar to Telesat's Anik F1R satellite launched on a Proton vehicle in September 2005
Nimiq 4 is Telesat's 18th satellite and will occupy the 72.5º slot to provided telecommunications and broadcasting services throughout the Americas

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