ILS launch

1999-06-02T00:00:00

ILS International Launch Services lifted a Russian Proton K booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 20 May. The booster placed the Lockheed Martin-built Nimiq 1 direct broadcast communications satellite, to be operated by Canada's Telesat, into geostationary transfer orbit. It was the third commercial ILS Proton launch this year. The ...

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