With Orbital Slot Resolved, Ukraine's Lybid Gets Launch Date

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Ukraine's civil-military telecommunications satellite, after multiple delays related to carving out a place for itself in a crowded orbital neighborhood, is scheduled for launch in April aboard a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry official said. The Lybid satellite will carry 30 channels distributed equally over three beams covering Ukraine and parts of Europe, India and West Africa. Col. Pavlo Tertytskyi, the defense and air attache at Ukraine's British embassy, said the extent of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's use of the Lybid satellite will depend in part on where Ukrainian forces are deployed with coalition forces. Tertytskyi outlined the Lybid project here Nov. 7 during the Global Milsatcom conference organized by SMi Group.