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<\/em><\/font><\/font>**BACKGROUND PAGES** <\/font> <\/font> **LIVE WEBCAST LINK**<\/font> <\/font> <\/font> Following the completion of the mission, Rob Peckham, president and general manager of Sea Launch, congratulated PanAmSat and Space Systems\/Loral. <\/p>\n\u201cWe take pride in successfully delivering our fourth satellite to orbit for PanAmSat. And we look forward to delivering many more as we continue to grow our long-standing relationship,\u201d Peckham said. <\/font> <\/font> \u201cWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re delighted with today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission and we want to extend our thanks to everyone involved in achieving this milestone event. In particular, I want to thank our partners and contractors and the entire Sea Launch team for executing another outstanding Sea Launch mission.\u201d<\/font> <\/font> NASASPACEFLIGHT.COM RSS FEED \u2014> <\/font> <\/font> Mission outline: **NASASpaceflight.com Job Opportunities**<\/font> New site design coming soon.<\/font><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n <\/u><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sea Launch\u2019s Zenit-3SL has successfully carried the Galaxy 16 telecommunications satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on Sunday morning at 07:50 GMT. Galaxy 16 is the fourth spacecraft Sea Launch will orbit for PanAmSat. While it is designed for a 15-year lifespan, Sea Launch\u2019s direct insertion into equatorial orbit is expected to yield additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/font>Built by Space Systems\/Loral <\/b>(SS\/L<\/b>), the 1300-series spacecraft, weighing in at 4,640 kg <\/b>(10,229 lb<\/b>), carries 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders, primed to meet the needs of a variety of broadcast customers in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada.
<\/font> <\/font> From its equatorial launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle will lift Galaxy 16 spacecraft to GTO, on its way to a final orbital location at 99 degrees West Longitude.<\/font> <\/font> The launch was set for Saturday morning, but an off-nominal indication during routine testing at the launch site, the Sea Launch team stopped the countdown, took corrective action, and then reset the schedule for liftoff on June 18.<\/font> <\/font> This will be the third launch of the year for Sea Launch, following the successful JCSat-9 launch in April.<\/p>\n<\/font>STS-121 Mission T-Shirt. Use discount code \u2018nasaspaceflight\u2019 when ordering from Countdown Creations & receive 5% off!<\/p>\n
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Lifting off from the Odyssey<\/em> Launch Platform, a Zenit-3SL rocket will begin its ascent phase of flight. The first stage of the vehicle will separate two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, and the protective payload fairing will be jettisoned 75 seconds later. Following a six-minute burn, the second stage will separate from the Block DM upper stage. The Block DM will operate for seven minutes and then shutdown for a 30-minute coast period. <\/font> <\/font> The Block DM will burn a second time for four-and-a-half minutes. Following the second burn, and another 10-minute coast, the spacecraft will separate over the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. The Hartebeestok ground station at Pretoria, South Africa, is expected to acquire a signal from the spacecraft about 5 minutes after spacecraft separation. <\/p>\n<\/em><\/font>
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