According to mission profile IS-16 will be injected directly to the Geostationary Earth Orbit.http://www.ilslaunch.com/assets/pdf/I-16-MO-fINAL.pdfhttp://www.ilslaunch.com/Intelsat-16-mission-control/
Quote from: SNS on 01/07/2010 03:08 pmAccording to mission profile IS-16 will be injected directly to the Geostationary Earth Orbit.http://www.ilslaunch.com/assets/pdf/I-16-MO-fINAL.pdfhttp://www.ilslaunch.com/Intelsat-16-mission-control/RD-275 so not one of the phase IIIAlso if you trusthttp://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Протон_(ракета-носитель)next phase III will be Echostar?
Quote from: Stan Black on 01/07/2010 05:24 pmQuote from: SNS on 01/07/2010 03:08 pmAccording to mission profile IS-16 will be injected directly to the Geostationary Earth Orbit.http://www.ilslaunch.com/assets/pdf/I-16-MO-fINAL.pdfhttp://www.ilslaunch.com/Intelsat-16-mission-control/RD-275 so not one of the phase IIIAlso if you trusthttp://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Протон_(ракета-носитель)next phase III will be Echostar?Someone has updated the Russian Wikipedia entry; this launch now shows Briz-M 99511 which is one of the enhanced versions(?)