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Canadian commercial communications satellite
Nimiq-5 was built by Space Systems/Loral, and is based on the LS-1300satellite bus. The contract to build it was announced on 4 January 2007. At launch, it will have a mass of 4,745 kg (10,461 lb), and is expected to operate for fifteen years. It carries 32 Ku-band transponders frequency designation system.
Launch
Nimiq-5 was launched by International Launch Services (ILS), using a Proton-M launch vehicle with a Briz-M upper stage, under a contract signed in April 2007. The launch was conducted from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 19:19:19 UTC on 17 September 2009. The Briz-M separated from the Proton-M nine minutes and forty one seconds into the flight and subsequently made five burns before releasing Nimiq-5 into a geosynchronous transfer orbit nine hours and fifteen minutes after liftoff.
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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