Most Proton payloads are too massive to launch with the less powerful Falcon 9 rocket, and there are no spare Ariane 5 launch opportunities, so Proton customers cannot easily switch to other launchers.
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With the Atlas V launch of the SES 1KR satellite on April 20, 2006, ILS had made 100 launches, 97 of which were successful.
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According to the in-orbit delivery contract signed in early 2011, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) of Japan is constructing the satellite's base Spacebus MELCO DS2000, and the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) will provide the launch of the spacecraft atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan scheduled on February 10,2014.
According to the in-orbit delivery contract signed in early 2011, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) of Japan is in charge of the construction of the satellite's base Spacebus MELCO DS2000, and the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) will provide the launch of the spacecraft atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan scheduled in late 2014.
Albrecht was a senior executive at SAIC from 1992–1997 and was President of Lockheed Martin's International Launch Services from 1999 - 2006.