Fogarty
05-21-2008, 08:14 PM
C/P from Sea Launch's website
Galaxy 18 Mission Success!
Sea Launch successfully completed the Intelsat’s Galaxy 18 mission on May 21. A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from the Odyssey Launch Platform at 2:43am PDT (9:43 GMT). All phases of the flight profile performed as expected. The mission ended with spacecraft separation from the Block DM upper stage, placing the Galaxy 18 communications satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. A ground station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, acquired the spacecraft signal shortly after spacecraft separation. All systems are operating nominally.
You can access the webcast launch from this link...
hxxp://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html
Galaxy 18 Mission Success!
Sea Launch successfully completed the Intelsat’s Galaxy 18 mission on May 21. A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from the Odyssey Launch Platform at 2:43am PDT (9:43 GMT). All phases of the flight profile performed as expected. The mission ended with spacecraft separation from the Block DM upper stage, placing the Galaxy 18 communications satellite into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. A ground station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, acquired the spacecraft signal shortly after spacecraft separation. All systems are operating nominally.
You can access the webcast launch from this link...
hxxp://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html