NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1999-053A
LMI-1 (Lockheed-Martin Intersputnik) was a US-Russian geosynchronous communications spacecraft launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur at 22:30 UT. It will provide voice and video broadcast with its total of 44 high power transponders in the C- and Ku-bands to several countries between central Europe and Southeast Asia after parking over 75 deg-E longitude. The jointly owned LMI corporation has plans to launch a total of 15 such satellites
Launch Date: 1999-09-26
Launch Vehicle: Proton-K
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Questions and comments about this spacecraft can be directed to: Coordinated Request and User Support Office