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ASTRA 2E UPDATE

Here is ASTRA 2E being unloaded from its transport casing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 

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solly said:
SES S.A. (NYSE Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) is pleased to announce that the ASTRA 2E satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft will now be processed for a July 21st launch (local time Baikonur) on board a Proton launch vehicle.
 

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ASTRA 2E may have travelled a long way, but it's arrived at its destination safe and sound.
 

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more photo of astra 2e
 

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At Baikonur, began assembling the head of the carrier rocket "Proton", designed to launch the satellite communications "Astra 2E"
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in assembly and testing 92-A50 began joint operations to assemble the ascent unit (AU) carrier rocket "Proton-M", designed to run telecommunications spacecraft Astra 2E / «Astra 2E." Spacecraft Astra 2E made EADS Astrium (France) to order satellite operator SES (Luxembourg).
After arriving at the spaceport, SC Astra 2E was placed in the hall of 103 Mica, where engineers Astrium had all the necessary self checking and tucked it propellants. This morning, SC Astra 2E moved into the hall and 101 to the adapter system that allows the machine is joined to the upper stage. The direct assembly of the spacecraft from the upper stage "Breeze-M" is scheduled the next day.
In addition to the assembly of the spacecraft from the upper stage, with HGC include the installation of the valves on the fairing spacecraft docked with the "razgonnikom" and the subsequent electrical checks SHM.
In parallel, in the next room Mikal experts Khrunichev. Khrunichev finalizing the carrier rocket "Proton-M" to the assembly with the AU.
Works with rocket "Proton" upper stage "Breeze-M" and the other components of a space rocket, and the preparation of the launch complex personnel perform Khrunichev Khrunichev Space Agency and a number of enterprises.
The contract for the use of the carrier rocket "Proton-M" to launch the satellite Astra 2E company has entered into International Launch Services Inc. (ILS). Controlling stake in ILS owned Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev", the developer and manufacturer of "Proton" and the upper stage "Breeze-M". Since the beginning of this year, carried four start-up of "Proton" in the services to ILS.
 
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