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Over the next few years, the program grew tremendously in both scope and vision, with staff and students from MIT (Payload), UW (Spacecraft Bus) and UQ (Reentry) collaboratively designing various parts of the mission.
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.
Based on the DFH-3 satellite bus, it will provide communication coverage for manned Shenzhou missions, from Shenzhou 7 onwards.