25924 - ABS-1

LMI-1 (Lockheed-Martin Intersputnik) was a US-Russian geosynchronous communications spacecraft launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur at 22:30 UT. It will provide voice and video broadcast with its total of 44 high power transponders in the C- and Ku-bands to several countries between central Europe and Southeast Asia after parking over 75 degrees E longitude. The jointly owned LMI corporation has plans to launch a total of 15 such satellites

Alternate Names

Lockheed-Martin Intersputnik

Facts in Brief

Launch Date: 1999-09-26
Launch Vehicle: Proton-K
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan