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Proton Launches
PAS 10 to Replace PAS 4
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A Proton K/DM3 launched PAS 10 from
Baikonur Cosmodrome, LC 81,  pad
23, at 0111 UTC on May 15 (6:11 pm PDT May 14). International
Launch Services (ILS), a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and
Khrunichev brokered the launch. PAS 10 will be positioned at 68.5°E,
over the Indian Ocean. The satellite will replace PAS 4   which
lost its primary SCP in November 1998 and has since been running
on its backup processor. Should that remaining SCP malfunction,
the satellite would be a total loss.
The 3772 kg (8324 lbm) Boeing build
BSS 601HP has an expected life of 15 years, with an 9600 watt EOL
power. It carries 24 C-band  transponders
powered by 55-watt traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs), and 24
Ku-band transponders,powered by 98-watt TWTAs. The satellite will
serve customers in a 30 million-square-mile area in Africea, Asia,
Europe and the Middle East. Among its expected users are BBC, CNN,
CCTV, Discovery, ESPN, MTV, NHK, Nickelodeon and TNT. PAS 10 will
be the 23rd satellite in the PanAmSat Corp.
constellation.
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