Eles adoram brasileiros no Luxemburgo
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013Nice daytime launch of a Proton-M (Протон-М) with SES-6 as the the payload. It’s a big boy: weighing in at 6,100 kg, with lots of transponders: 43 C-band and 48 Ku-band. It’s replacing the 806 spacecraft, one of the few remaining “brick” birds (LM/AS-7000). That’s a good thing to do because you never know when these might go on ya.
Besides filling it partially with what’s on 806, what are you going to do with all that capacity? You could probably wait until the 2014 World Cup to help fill it with 6 weeks of occasional business. Then what? Hey, how about a DTH business? And the players are:
- Net/Embratel with 8,638,984 subscribers
- Sky (DirecTV) = 5,144,946
- Oi = 792,107
- Telefónica/Vivo = 586,152
- GVT = 451,605
Oi waits for launch, then signs the contract. Anchor customer, probably. Large? Good enough.
