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Lockheed Martin Ground Team Acquires GE-6 Signal

Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space/General Electric Americom Satellite (GE-6) in the Lockheed Martin Commercial Satellite Center, Sunnyvale, Ca) Photo Credit: Russ Underwood
Sunnyvale - Oct. 23, 2000
 All systems are nominal following the successful launch of the GE-6 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for GE American Communications (GE Americom).

Lift-off occurred at 3 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on Saturday, Oct. 21, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, aboard a Proton booster provided by International Launch Services (ILS).

Initial contact with the satellite, called acquisition of signal, was confirmed the same day at 5:44 p.m. PDT from the Lockheed Martin satellite tracking station in Uralla, Australia.

Over the course of the next several days, the LMCSS ground team will undertake a series of maneuvers to deliver the spacecraft to its orbital slot at 72 degrees West Longitude.

GE-6, a hybrid C/Ku-band satellite with 28 Ku Band and 24 C Band active transponders, will join the GE Americom fleet of satellites and provide direct-to-home (DTH), media and entertainment distribution plus enterprise and Internet protocol (IP) solutions in North America.

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Proton Launches New GE Americom Geo Bird
Moscow (Interfax) Oct. 2, 2000
A Russian Proton-K rocket carrying a U.S. commercial communication satellite GE-1A was successfully launched at 2 a.m. Moscow time on Monday, an official in the strategic missile command's press service told Interfax.
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