COSMIC LAUNCHES BY ROSOBORONEXPORT, Rosoboronexport - ФГУП «Рособоронэкспорт»
Release Date: 2009-04-20
Sicral 1B, Italian communication spacecraft of dual purpose, was launched from the sea-based space and rocket complex Sea Launch with Zenit 3SL space booster on April 20, 2009 at 8:16 AM GMT (12:16 PM Moscow time). Sea Launch was also used to boost another dual purpose spacecraft - Koreasat-5 - for the Korean Republic in August, 2006, under a contract with Rosoboronexport.This is the 27th spacecraft to be launched according to a contract signed in Moscow on August 28, 2007 between Rosoboronexport and Sea Launch Limited Partnership, Cayman Islands, for Telespazio, a Thales/Finmeccanica department.
Sicral 1B is intended to provide strategic and tactic communication of Italian Air Forces in Italy and abroad and UHF and SHF SATCOM communication opportunities for NATO. The satellite is expected to work in tandem with Sicral 1A launched in 2001.
The planned operation life of Sicral 1B is 13 years - 2009-2021; it is expected to operate jointly with Sicral-2 from 2012.
The Russian contractors are S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the head company for launch of Zenit 3SL, and Design Bureau of Transport Machinery.
Export of products and services related to space projects is one of the prospective developments of Rosoboronexport. In this sphere Rosoboronexport offers its foreign customers development of high precision remote Earth probing satellites, support in creation of national space systems including R&D works for development and production of components for systems of different purpose, services for creating and equipping space launch sites and on-ground satellite control systems, stations for receiving and processing remote Earth probing data, satellite communication stations, consumer navigation equipment, space filming of Earth surface with Russian satellites of high and extra-high precision and support in film processing; creation of topographic and special maps (including digital maps), digital landscape models and means of their processing.
Rosoboronexport guarantees successful and reliable cooperation between foreign state structures and private companies with the Russian Space Forces, Federal Space Agency and the leading Russian aerospace enterprises.
| Type: | NORMAL |
| Company: | Rosoboronexport - ФГУП «Рособоронэкспорт» |
| Country: | Russian Federation |