Astra 1L to be launched on May 3rd

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ASTRA 1L scheduled for 3 May 2007 from Kourou

Betzdorf, 14 March 2007. SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has announced today that the launch of its new satellite ASTRA 1L onboard an Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled for 3 May 2007 from the launch site of Kourou, French Guiana. ASTRA 1L is the 9th ASTRA satellite launched with Arianespace and the 3rd ASTRA satellite launched with an Ariane 5 rocket.

ASTRA 1L is an A2100 AXS type of satellite built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS). It will join the ASTRA satellites currently co-positioned at 19.2° East to operate as a replacement satellite for existing capacity and to strengthen ASTRA’s unique redundancy and customer security scheme.

Martin Halliwell, Chief Technology Officer of SES ASTRA, said: “After the successful launches that we have already experienced together, we feel very confident that we have chosen the right partner for the launch of our new satellite. This is the first Ariane launch of an ASTRA spacecraft since ASTRA 3A in March 2002. We are excited to be returning to Kourou to work once again with the colleagues from Arianespace and look forward to a successful mission.”

(SES press release)

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Its nice to see that if you put "Astra 1L" into google that Analoguesats website comes up higher in the listing than SES Astras site



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:roflmao: :clap:

SES have a professionally designed website which no doubt has assorted webmasters to do their work.

I have a small website with just me running it which is hosted on my free web space from my ISP account!

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