Anik G1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

18:35:59

Monday April 15, 2013

Mission Details

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Anik G1

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Anik G1 is a Canadian communications satellite operated by Telesat Canada, carrying 16 transponders operating in the extended Ku-band that will be used by Shaw Direct, a provider of direct-to-home satellite TV services in Canada. Anik G1 will also provide expansion and follow-on capacity at 107.3 degrees West co-located with the Anik F1R satellite covering South America. It also has 12 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders that will both replace and expand on Telesat’s Anik F1 satellite now serving South America. In addition, Anik G1 will have three X-band channels for government services over the Americas and part of the Pacific Ocean and one channel in the reverse Direct Broadcast Service band. To be built by Space Systems/Loral utilizing the flight-proven SSL-1300 platform, Anik G1 is anticipated to have a service lifetime of 15 years.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

4,905 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


71st

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2013

2013


15th

Orbital launch attempt