Anik-F1R

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

21:53:40

Thursday September 8, 2005

Mission Details

Anik-F1R

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Anik F1R will replace Anik F1, which is experiencing accelerated degradation of its solar array reflector panels. It will be based on Astrium's Eurostar-3000S bus and has a launch mass of about 4000 kg, a solar array span of 35 meters once deployed in orbit, and spacecraft power of 10 kW at end of life. It will carry 24 C-band and 32 Ku-band transponders. Anik F1R has a design life of 15 years. In addition, a Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS-GEO 4) navigation package operating in C-band for uplink and L-band for downlink provides precision Global Positioning System-based guidance information to aircraft at thousands of airports and landing strips that lack such a capability today.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,500 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Proton-M/Briz-M

Active Since 2001

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center logo

Manufacturer

Khrunichev

Price

$65.00 million

Rocket

Height: 58.18m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 21,000 kg

GTO: 6,900 kg

Liftoff Thrust

10,027 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.35m

Height: 15.26m

Stages

4

Launch Site

Site 200/39

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

10 days 23 hours

Stats

Proton-M


9th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2005

2005


39th

Orbital launch attempt