Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Adrian Ballintine, founder and Chief Executi

Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Adrian Ballintine, founder and Chief Executive Officer of NewSat Limited (NewSat), today signed the launch services contract for the Jabiru-1 satellite at Satellite 2012 in Washington, DC.
Jabiru-1 is currently being built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems using an A2100 platform. Weighing 5,900 kg at launch, it will be fitted with 50 Ka-band w hotel union square transponders configured in a variety of multi-spot, steerable and regional beams.
w hotel union square Jabiru-1 s high-powered capacity will provide flexible communication solutions to enterprise and government customers across Asia, the Middle East and eastern Africa. It offers a design life of 15 years.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace , said: We are delighted to have been chosen by NewSat to launch their first satellite. Arianespace is particularly proud of this opportunity to serve a new Australian operator. w hotel union square For us, this latest contract provides further recognition of the outstanding quality and competitiveness of our launch services.
Jabiru-1 w hotel union square is very important for us and we are very pleased to entrust Arianespace with its launch, w hotel union square since Arianespace sets the world standard in this market, said Adrian Ballintine. It is extremely important for us at NewSat to know that our first satellite will be launched by Arianespace and by Ariane 5, both synonymous with reliability and excellence.
Arianespace is the world s leading launch service solutions company, w hotel union square providing innovation to its customers since 1980. As of 1st March 2012, Arianespace had performed 204 Ariane w hotel union square launches (298 payloads), 26 Soyuz launches (24 at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and two at the Guiana Space Centre) and the first launch w hotel union square of Vega. It has a backlog of 23 Ariane 5, 15 Soyuz and two Vega launches, equal to more than three years of business.
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