Eutelsat 16B

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Eutelsat 16B
Start date February 27, 1998, 10:38 PM UTC
Launcher Ariane 4 106
Launch site ELA-2 , Guyana Space Center
COSPAR-ID : 1998-013A
Takeoff mass 2885 kg
Mass in orbit 1770 kg
Manufacturer Matra Marconi Space (today: EADS Astrium )
model Eurostar 2000+
lifespan 15 years (planned) end of
operation February 2015
operator Eutelsat
Playback information
Transponder 28 Ku band
Transponder performance 135 W
Bandwidth 25 × 33 MHz
2 × 36 MHz
1 × 46.5 MHz
EIRP Superbeam 53 dBW
Widebeam 50 dBW
position
First position 16 ° East
Actual position Cemetery orbit
List of geostationary satellites

Eutelsat 16B (former names Hot Bird 4 , Atlantic Bird 4 , Eurobird 16 ) was the name for a television satellite of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( Eutelsat ) based in Paris. It was launched in 1998 as Hot Bird 4 from the Kourou spaceport with an Ariane 4 rocket .

Transponder 110 is a Skyplex transponder (MCPC packets can be put together via several uplinks at the same time), with transponder 111-118 the beam can be controlled.

Hot Bird 4 was moved to 7 ° West in the 2nd quarter of 2006 following the successful commissioning of the new Hot Bird 7A and Hot Bird 8 satellites . Eutelsat started moving Hot Bird 4 to 7 ° West shortly after the new Hot Bird 7A went into operation and before the launch of Hot Bird 8 . The satellite traveled 0.4 degrees west per day. Hot Bird 4 was renamed Atlantic Bird 4 after successful repositioning on 7 West and was used by the Egyptian satellite operator Egyptian Satellite Co. (Nilesat) to strengthen Nilesat 102 at 7 ° West.

After AtlanticBird 4A went into operation at 7 ° West, the satellite was moved to 16 ° East and renamed Eurobird 16 . On March 1, 2012, Eutelsat unified the names of its satellites around the brand name, since the Eutelsat 16B .

The satellite was decommissioned in February 2015.

reception

The satellite could be received in Europe , the Middle East and parts of Africa , Asia and Russia . The transmission took place in the Ku band .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eutelsat press release: Egyptian Nilesat concludes capacity agreement with Eutelsat for satellite position 7 ° West. Archived from the original on March 9, 2006 ; Retrieved April 10, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Eutelsat - One name, one group, one fleet. eutelsat COMMUNICATIOS, March 1, 2012, archived from the original on August 19, 2012 ; Retrieved August 15, 2012 .
  3. ↑ FULL YEAR 2014-15 RESULTS . In: Mynewsdesk . ( eutelsat.com [accessed August 11, 2017]).