ViaSat-1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

18:48:57

Wednesday October 19, 2011

Mission Details

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ViaSat-1

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Space Systems/Loral, was selected in January 2008 to provide the ViaSat 1 high-capacity broadband satellite for ViaSat Inc. With a throughput of 140 Gbps, ViaSat-1 is expected to be the world's highest-capacity broadband satellite. Loral also announced that it is investing in the Canadian coverage portion of the satellite in anticipation of Telesat Canada (which is 64 percent owned by Loral) utilizing the capacity for Canadian services. The satellite is planned for Telesat's 115 West longitude orbital slot and Telesat will also provide telemetry, tracking & control (TT&C) operations for the satellite. The new spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2011 and is expected to provide more than 15 years of service life. It employs SS/L's space-proven SSL-1300 platform and high-capacity Ka-band spot beam technology to ultimately service more broadband users at faster data rates than any previous satellite.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

6,740 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


56th

Mission

6th

Mission of 2011

2011


62nd

Orbital launch attempt