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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
19:23:41
Monday September 11, 2017
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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
Manufacturer
KhrunichevPrice
$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
101st
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2017
57th
Orbital launch attempt