[Via Satellite 10-30-2015] Eutelsat Communications <\/b>has reached an agreement with International Launch Services <\/b>(ILS) for a series of launches using the Proton Breeze M rocket. The launches are scheduled to occur from 2016 to 2023 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
Eutelsat 9B, built by Airbus Defence and Space<\/b>, is the first mission in the multi-launch agreement. The high capacity Ku-band satellite, based on the Eurostar E3000 platform, is designed to serve high-growth digital television markets across Europe and the Nordic\/Baltic regions, and will also host the first data relay payload for the European Data Relay Satellite System (EDRS) being implemented through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between Airbus and the European Space Agency <\/b>(ESA).<\/p>\n
The launch agreement is a significant win for Proton, which has suffered from reliability concerns in recent years. Despite a string of more recent failures, Proton has conducted more than 400 missions, including 11 satellites for Eutelsat. ILS has made recent executive appointments to boost Proton\u2019s trustworthiness in the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaunch diversity is of great value to satellite operators, and ILS Proton has long been a leader in commercial launch for over 20 years. We are confident that the quality program under implementation by ILS and Khrunichev<\/b> will return the reliability of Proton to the highest industry standards,\u201d said Michel de Rosen, CEO of Eutelsat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Via Satellite 10-30-2015] Eutelsat Communications has reached an agreement with International Launch Services (ILS) for a series of launches using the Proton Breeze M rocket. The launches are scheduled to occur from 2016 to 2023 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Eutelsat 9B, built by Airbus Defence and Space, is the first mission in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72788,"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-72787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72787"}],"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=72787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}