Assembly of space head part of booster rocket Zenith-3SLB intended for launch of Israeli satellite Amos-3 completed
Baikonur. April 11. Kazakhstan Today - Assembly of the space head part of the booster rocket Zenith-3SLB intended for launch of Israeli satellite Amos-3 has been completed at Baikonur, the agency reports referring to the press service of the Federal Space Center Baikonur.
The launch of the satellite Amos-3 by the booster rocket Zenith-3SLB is planned for April 24, 2008.
This week the experts of the Rocket Space Corporation Energy and the Federal Space Center Baikonur jointly with the experts of scientific-engineering enterprise Vympel carried out the works in the assembly testing house of the platform №31 on assembly of the space head part - docking of the space vehicle Amos-3 to the booster block DM-SLB intended for launch of the satellite into the target orbit.
Yesterday the assembly was completed and today the space head part will be transported to the assembly testing house of the platform №42 for the complete assembly with the booster rocket Zenith-3SLB.
The satellite Amos-3 should replace in the orbit the satellite Amos-1 launched in 1996. Amos-3 will expand cover zone of re-transmitters of Qu-range, will provide high-quality communication and broadband data transmission on the territory of the Near East, Europe, Africa, and some areas of the Northern and South America.
The launch of the booster rocket Zenith-3SLB with the space satellite Amos-3 is planned to take place from the modernized starting complex of the platform №45 on April 24, 2008.
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