Boeing Ships DirecTV 12 To Baikonur, Eyes Late December Launch

Boeing has shipped DirecTV 12, the last satellite in its 2009 delivery book, to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in anticipation of a late-December launch on a Proton/Breeze M. A model 702, the satellite is the eleventh Boeing has built for DirecTV, although it varies slightly from DirecTV 10 and...

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