Russian Rocket Fails Bring Satellite Telkom-3

Moscow: rocket booster (booster) Briz-M failed to carry two satellites, one of Indonesia's Telkom-3 into orbit transitions have been calculated following the launch on Monday night. Reported on the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Tuesday (7/8).

Russia launched a Proton rocket with a Briz-M booster carrying Express MD2 satellite and satellite-owned PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk, Telkom-3, at 23:31 Moscow time (19:31 GMT) from Baikonur space center of Kazakhstan.

"Briz-M booster and two satellites in orbit transition is not detected," Roscosmos said in a statement on his official website. "However, it received a signal from the driver of an emergency temporary orbit."

According to preliminary data, Briz-M on the schedule, but driving it only worked for seven minutes instead of 18 minutes and five seconds as she has diprogamkan.

The source of the space industry told RIA Novosti that the satellite does not have a chance to break away from the booster and reached orbit destination.

He said that the launch Proton rocket with Briz booster may be postponed until the experts determine the cause of the failure and will adjust the scheduled launch.

Damage to the Briz-M booster resulted in the loss of a communications satellite Express-AM4 in August 2011.

Meanwhile, Telkom-3 satellite was made by Russian space company Reshetnev cooperation with Thales Alenia Space as a maker of satellite communications equipment.

The satellite has an active Ku-band transponders and 42-C to provide telecommunication services to users in Indonesia.

This is the first time Indonesia to buy a satellite of Russia.

While Express MD2 is a small communications satellite designed and built by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center for Russian communications satellite company RSCC.

The satellite has a transponder for relaying 8C and 1L, all the time, the flow of data to many users in the system of Russian satellite broadcasting and communications.

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