Eutelsat 70D

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Eutelsat 70D
Start date August 21, 2002, 10:05 pm UTC
Launcher Atlas V 1
Launch site LC-41 , Cape Canaveral , Florida
COSPAR-ID : 2002-038A
Takeoff mass 2,995 kg
Manufacturer Alcatel Alenia Space
model Spacebus 3000 B3
lifespan 12 years (planned) end of
operation August 2016
operator Eutelsat
Playback information
Transponder 28 Ku band
4 Ka band
Bandwidth Ku band 16 × 33 MHz , 12 × 36 MHz
Ka band 4 × 72 MHz
EIRP Ku band 53 dBW
Ka band 56 dBW
Others
Electrical power Start: 10,500 W
position
First position 13 ° East
Actual position Cemetery orbit
List of geostationary satellites

Eutelsat 70D (formerly Eutelsat Hot Bird 13A , previously Hot Bird 6 ) was a television satellite of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( Eutelsat ) based in Paris and was deployed in August 2002 on board an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida (USA) started.

history

It replaced the Hot Bird 5 , which was also previously positioned at 13 ° East . LEOP and initial positioning occurred on Space Operations Center GSOC the DLR . On March 1, 2012, Eutelsat unified the names of its satellites around the brand name.

After the new Eutelsat 3D went into operation , Hot Bird 13A was replaced on July 4, 2013 by the Eutelsat 3C , which is now superfluous to 3.1 ° East , and moved to 7.8 ° West. Due to the imminent launch of Eutelsat 8 West B , he was in 8 West C Eutelsat renamed. Commissioning took place on August 8, 2013.

In 2015 it was moved to 33 degrees East and renamed Eutelsat 33D . A year later it was moved again, namely to 70 ° East, and was given the name Eutelsat 70D .

The satellite was decommissioned in August 2016.

technology

Eutelsat 70D had 8  Skyplex units (MCPC packets could be put together via several uplinks at the same time). The transponders 90, 91 and 92 were used for this.

The transponders were divided as follows:

  • Ku band : 16 transponders with 33 MHz each (transponders 90–94, 115–118, 153–159)
  • Ku-band: 12 transponders with 36 MHz each (transponder 123-134)
  • Ka-Band : 4 transponders with 72 MHz each (transponder 153, 154, 158, 159)

reception

The satellite could only be received in the Middle East and Libya. The transmission took place in the Ku and Ka bands.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our fleet - Eutelsat. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ EUTELSAT COMMUNICATIONS FULL YEAR 2016-17 RESULTS . In: Mynewsdesk . ( eutelsat.com [accessed August 9, 2017]).