Mobile Communications Satellite Launches Into Orbit
A Spaceflight Now article by Justin Ray, via Space.com, reports that:
The second step in a $1.5 billion program to create a mobile broadband communications network spanning the globe for users at sea, in the air and on land roared into space today.
The Inmarsat 4-F2 satellite lifted off from a floating platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean at 1407 GMT (9:07 a.m. EST) atop a commercial Sea Launch Zenit 3SL rocket.
The three-stage booster took about 85 minutes to haul the 13,108-pound (5,945-kilogram) spacecraft to the desired altitude.
posted by Fergie @ 11/08/2005 09:11:00 AM
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