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Hughes Quits Sea Launch For Arianespace European Space Agency
Arianespace will launch the Spaceway-3 communications satellite for Hughes Network Systems LLC. An August liftoff is scheduled aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
Hughes will operate the Ka-band satellite, built by Boeing Satellites Systems Inc., as part of its new broadband satellite network to provide multimedia services throughout North America. According to TelecomWeb news break sister e-letter Satellite Today, the bird had been scheduled to be lofted into orbit by Sea Launch before the end of July, but Hughes switched vehicles following that launch provider's Jan. 30 failure that destroyed the SES New Skies' NSS-8 satellite. That was the first of six Sea Launch missions scheduled for 2007; besides Hughes, Sea Launch's other customers include Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co., DirecTV, PanAmSat Corp. and EchoStar Communications Corp.
Spaceway-3 marks a second customer's switching from Sea Launch to Arianespace. SES Americom plans to launch its AMC-21 satellite in the 2008 second quarter aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The satellite previously had been scheduled to be placed into orbit by Sea Launch's planned Land Launch rocket. The schedule for the remainder of Sea Launch's 2007 manifest remains uncertain. following the loss of a Zenit-3SL vehicle and the SES New Skies NSS-8 satellite Jan. 30.
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