SES7
Sign in to saveSES-7 (also formerly known as ProtoStar-2 / Indostar-2) is a commercial communications satellite operated by SES World Skies (now SES).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Operator
- ProtoStar
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Proton-M
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2009-05-16
- space tug
- Briz-M
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
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SES-7 (also formerly known as ProtoStar-2 / Indostar-2) is a commercial communications satellite operated by SES World Skies (now SES).
== Spacecraft == ProtoStar-2 is a geosynchronous communications satellite built by Boeing. It is a BSS-601HP satellite bus. On 15 November 2002, PanAmSat terminated its contract with Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) for the almost-completed Galaxy-8iR satellite, claiming that Boeing had defaulted on the terms of the contract, and requested US$72 million from Boeing to refund prior advance payments and other costs. The satellite was later converted into the ProtoStar-2 satellite, which was launched in May 2009. Late 2009, it is purchased through auction by SES for SES World Skies unit for US$180 million. The satellite was renamed SES-7 in May 2010.
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