O3b is now to launch on Soyuz from Kourou.French Export Credit Agency Backs O3b Projecthttp://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/french-export-credit-agency-backs-o3b-project.html
Sea Launch (Land Launch) is announcing that they are preparing for the launch of the Intelsat-15 satellite at the end of the year.
Strange quote from http://www.intelsat.com/press/news-releases/2009/20091008-1.asp"After its launch in early 2012, IS-17 will replace the Intelsat 702 satellite located at 66º E"
Quote from: SIM city on 09/09/2009 09:17 pmO3b is now to launch on Soyuz from Kourou.French Export Credit Agency Backs O3b Projecthttp://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/french-export-credit-agency-backs-o3b-project.htmlAs I know second pair of 8 satellites is still booked for Sea Launch. They plans to launch a total of 16 satellites.
"O3b will initially launch eight satellites that will be placed in medium earth orbit (8,000 kilometers from the earth), which is some four times closer to the planet than geostationary satellites at over 35,000 kilometers, and accounts for the low latency. Based on O3b’s current spectrum allocation in the Ka frequency band, the company has the option to launch many more satellites in the future. This innovative satellite system will cover approximately 70 percent of the world’s population with fiber quality internet connectivity at attractive terms and conditions."SES
Karlsen said Sea Launch has three contracts — one from Intelsat of Washington and Luxembourg, and two from Paris-based Eutelsat — on its books.
Sea Launch expects to resume launch operations in early 2011 with Intelsat 17. The company also has four options with Intelsat and two yet-to-be-determined assignments for Eutelsat. Karlsen says the company will have enough backlog by year-end to fill its return-to-launch manifest: three Sea Launch missions are planned in 2011, and four—the minimum needed to break even—in 2012.
http://fdfhome.gsfc.nasa.gov/fdinfo_Launch_2011.html
2012April – Lybid' – Zenit-3SLB/DM-SLB – Baikonur
PARIS — Commercial launch services provider Sea Launch Co., which has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization since June 2009, expects to return to flight by mid-2011 with a stripped-down cost structure that will allow the company to be profitable with no more than four or four-and-one-half missions per year, Sea Launch President Kjell Karlsen said.The post-Chapter 11 Sea Launch will be 85 percent owned by a Russian company, Energia Overseas Ltd., and will have three launches — two for Eutelsat of Paris and one for Intelsat of Luxembourg and Washington — in its backlog.
If Sea Launch can clear court and regulatory hurdles by the end of the year, commercial launches could resume in early 2011.Sea Launch's land-based subsidiary, called Land Launch, will blast off with the Intelsat 18 spacecraft in the first quarter of 2011. Another Zenit rocket will lift off from the mobile Odyssey launch platform next summer with a satellite for either Intelsat or Eutelsat.
2011Date – Satellite(s) – Rocket/Upper stage – Cosmodrome – TimeJuly – TBD – Zenit-3SLB/DM-SLB – Baikonur2012Date – Satellite(s) – Rocket/Upper stage – Cosmodrome – TimeSeptember – Lybid' – Zenit-3SLB/DM-SLB – Baikonur
The Russian and Ukrainian experts plan to improve power characteristics of a launch vehicle "Zenit" started within the limits of the project «Land Launch» from the cosmodrome Baikonur to put into orbit heavier satellites, the chief of department of maintenance of insurance of space activity of state enterprise "ЦЭНКИ" Victor Buzykin has declared.«Now teamwork of the Russian and Ukrainian enterprises for increase of power possibilities of a space-rocket complex «Zenit»is organised. It will allow to raise launch mass into a geotransfer orbit, from 3,6 to 4,5 tons», - Buzykin at the international conference on space insurance in Moscow has told, informs "Interfax".According to Buzykin, actions for increase in weight of the satellites launched into a geotransfer orbit, will include change of an inclination of orbit, mass reduction of satellites adapters and rocket stages, fuel with the raised power characteristics for upper stage .He also has informed that annually under the program «Land Launch» from the cosmodrome Baikonur while can be carried out to five rockets "Zenit" that is caused by the limited production potentialities of Ukrainian enterprise "Yuzhmash" which does a rocket, and the Russian enterprise "Energomash" - the manufacturer of the engine for the first stage of "Zenit".