Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 02, 2009 - On Thursday evening, October 1, Arianespace boosted two payloads into geostationary transfer orbit: the Amazonas-2 civil communications satellite for the Spanish operator Hispasat, and the ComsatbW-1 military communications satellite, built by Astrium for the German Ministry of Defense.

More info: http://www.arianespace.com/news-mission-update/2009/646.asp

I have updated all the maps to provide more "realistic" dish size recommendation based on EIRP level:

 The values shown in the tables assume having an LNB with noise figure of 20°K and 0.7dB respectively

I have recently uploaded several new footprints: Eutelsat W48, Eutelsat W76 and new (Poland) Spot beam of Astra 1KR.

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, September 18, 2009 –International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the Nimiq 5 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for Telesat, the fourth largest fixed satellite services operator worldwide. This was the fifth commercial mission of the year for ILS and the seventh successful Proton launch of 2009. With the launch of Nimiq 5 today, ILS has launched half of Telesat’s operational fleet.

More info: http://www.ilslaunch.com/news-091809