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New Skies Contracts With
Boeing / Sea Launch
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New Skies
Satellites NV placed an order with Boeing Satellite Systems Inc
(BSS) for a BSS 702 satellite. Sea Launch’s Zenit 3SL was
selected as the launch provider under this delivery-in-orbit
contract. The satellite is  to
be launched in the third quarter of 2003, becoming operational in
2004. The NSS 8 contract includes options for up to two follow-on
spacecraft. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The 5700 kg
(12,563 lbm) NSS-8 satellite will be located at 105°W, a new
orbital slot for New Skies. NSS 8 will carry 88 operational
transponders, with 46 in C-band, 42 in  Ku-band
and 16 spares. NSS 8 will deliver services that include broadcast
television, Internet, multimedia and corporate data transmission
for customers in the Western Hemisphere, as well as
point-to-multipoint distribution of video to cable headends
throughout the Americas. Triple-junction gallium arsenide solar
panels will deliver 17 kW of beginning of life power, declining
to14 kW at the end of the satellite's 16 year expected operational
lifetime.
New
Skies Satellites, The Hague, completed its Initial Public Offering
(IPO) in October 2000. New Skies was formed through the partial
privatization of INTELSAT. New Skies has five operational
satellites. The company has two new satellites under construction
by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Ca, one due for
launch in late 2001 over the Atlantic Ocean Region and the second
in late 2002 over Asia. New Skies has secured rights to make use
of six additional orbital positions. New Skies estimates that
approximately 61% of new business in 2000 was for Internet
services.
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