{"id":79570,"date":"2013-10-28T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-proton-successfully-launches-the-sirius-fm-6-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:17:13","slug":"ils-proton-successfully-launches-the-sirius-fm-6-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-proton-successfully-launches-the-sirius-fm-6-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS Proton Successfully Launches the Sirius FM 6 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-28-13] <b>International Launch Services (ILS)<\/b>, successfully carried the Sirius FM 6 satellite, built by SSL, into orbit on an ILS Proton for <b>Sirius XM Radio<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle launched from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:09 Oct. 26 local time (18:09 GMT and 14:09 EDT on Oct. 25).&nbsp; The first three stages of the Proton used a standard ascent profile to place the orbital unit (Breeze M upper stage and the Sirius FM-6 satellite) into a sub-orbital trajectory. From this point in the mission, the Breeze M performed planned mission maneuvers to advance the orbital unit first to a circular parking orbit, then to an intermediate orbit, followed by a transfer orbit, and finally to a geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Separation of the Sirius FM 6 satellite occurred approximately 9 hours and 11 minutes after liftoff. The satellite, weighing over 6 metric tons, was built on the SSL 1300 platform. This was the sixth satellite launched by ILS Proton for SiriusXM and the 27th SSL 1300 satellite launched.<\/p>\n<p>Sirius FM 6 has an X-band uplink transponder and an S-band downlink transponder to deliver digital audio radio service. With approximately 20 Kw end-of-life power and an anticipated service life of 15 years, the Sirius FM 6 satellite is one of the most powerful satellites built today. The final orbital location for the satellite is 116.15 degrees west longitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-28-13] International Launch Services (ILS), successfully carried the Sirius FM 6 satellite, built by SSL, into orbit on an ILS Proton for Sirius XM Radio. The ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle launched from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:09 Oct. 26 local time (18:09 GMT and 14:09 EDT on Oct. 25).&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79571,"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-79570","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\/79570"}],"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=79570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}