SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off with the AsiaSat 6 satellite.

Telecommunications company AsiaSat now has a new satellite in orbit, its second in less than two months. Its new satellite, AsiaSat 6, was successfully delivered into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched at 1:00am EDT from Cape Canaveral, FL. Contact with the satellite was confirmed about an hour after liftoff.

This launch was originally intended to occur on August 27. However, due to a failure of an experimental SpaceX rocket during a test flight, the launch was delayed. The experimental rocket apparently malfunctioned because of a sensor error. The company stated that the same error wasnt likely to occur in its regular Falcon 9 rocket, but wanted to triple-check its systems to be certain.

AsiaSat 6 is based on the Space Systems/Loral 1300 platform. The communications satellite is equpped with 28 C-band transponders. These will be delivering video and broadband signals to AsiaSats customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The anticipated life of the satellite will be about 15 years.

SpaceX has one more launch this month. On September 19, its Dragon capsule will be launched from a Falcon 9 on its way to the International Space Station.

For more planned space launches this month, please see our September launch schedule.

Follow me onTwitterorFacebook. Read my Forbes bloghere.

See the rest here:

SpaceX Successfully Launched The AsiaSat 6 Satellite