Sea Launch Plans Newest Satellite Launch
LONG BEACH - 0411/05 - The DIRECTV Group has scheduled a late April launch for a satellite aboard a Sea Launch rocket.
Sea Launch, which launches satellites into orbit from a mobile sea-going platform near the equator, is headquartered in Long Beach.
The Boeing-built Spaceway F1 satellite is one of four that DIRECTV has scheduled for launch over the next three years in a major expansion of its programming capacity.
The expansion will enable DIRECTV to deliver more than 1,500 local and national high-definition channels and other advanced television programming services to consumers nationwide by 2007.
In February, Sea Launch successfully delivered XM Satellite Radio's XM-3 satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator, in its first mission of the 2005 manifest. Early data indicate the spacecraft is in excellent condition.
The satellite was carried aboard a Zenit-3SL rocket that was launched from the Odyssey Launch Platform.
The Boeing-built XM-3 satellite is a 702 model spacecraft, one of the most powerful satellites built today, designed to provide 18 kilowatts of total power at beginning of life.
Like its sister XM-1 and XM-2 spacecraft - also put into orbit by Sea Launch - XM-3 transmits more than 150 channels of digital-quality music, news, sports, talk, comedy, and children's programming to subscribers across the continental US.
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