Amazonas 5

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

19:23:41

Monday September 11, 2017

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Amazonas 5

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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.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit

1 Payload

5,900 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


101st

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2017

2017


57th

Orbital launch attempt