NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Amazonas 5

Launch Time
Mon Sep 11, 2017 19:23 UTC

Rocket

Proton-M/Briz-M
ILS
Status: Active
Price: $65.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 10,027 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 6,900 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 58.18 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 15.26 m

Mission Details

Amazonas 5

Amazonas 5 is a Ku- and Ka-band communications satellite for broadband and telecommunications services in Latin America.

HISPASAT ordered the Amazonas 5 satellite in December 2014 from SSL. It will replace the performance loss of the Amazonas 4A satellite and also replace the cancelled Amazonas 4B satellite.

The satellite will be built on SSL's SSL-1300 bus and carries 24 transponders in the Ku band, directed a Brazil and the remaining Latin American countries, and 34 spot beams in Ka-band distributed throughout Latin America. It is to be placed at will be located at 61° west.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,900.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2017

57th orbital launch attempt

Proton-M

101st mission
3rd mission of 2017
90th successful mission
11th consecutive successful mission