Delivered to the Baikonur space vehicle NSS-14
:: 11/18/2011
Today at the airport "Jubilee" Baikonur landed plane An-124-100, which delivered to the Baikonur space vehicle (SV) NSS-14, manufactured by Space Systems / Loral (USA) commissioned a global satellite operator SES (Luxembourg).
After unloading from the aircraft and installed on the shipping container platform with satellite and ground support equipment, the train went to the site 92A-50, where the spacecraft will be ready to run.
It is planned that tonight will be unloaded from the container satellite and setting it to stand in the finishing area of the mounting body.
Launch space rocket "Proton" with the upper stage "Breeze-M" and the telecommunication satellite NSS-14 is scheduled for late December 2011.
The spacecraft is also known by another name - SES-4.
http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=18295
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