Hot Bird 1

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Hot Bird 1
Start date March 28, 1995, 23:14 UTC
Launcher Ariane 4 V71
Launch site ELA-2 , Guyana Space Center
COSPAR-ID : 1995-016B
Takeoff mass 1780 kg
Mass in orbit 915 kg
Manufacturer Aérospatiale (now Alcatel Alenia Space )
model Spacebus 2000
lifespan ten years
operator Eutelsat
Playback information
Transponder 16 Ku-band + 8 backup
Transponder performance 70 W
Bandwidth 16 × 36 MHz
EIRP 49 dBW
Others
Electrical power Start: 3000 W
End: 2900 W
position
First position 13 ° East
Actual position Cemetery orbit (120.2 ° West)
List of geostationary satellites

Hot Bird 1 was a television satellite of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( Eutelsat ) based in Paris.

Originally called Eutelsat II-F6 , it was renamed Hot Bird 1 with the introduction of Eutelsat's Hot Bird fleet. The launch took place in 1995 from the Kourou spaceport . On March 11, 2006, the Hot Bird 7A satellite was launched , which replaced Hot Bird 1 after more than 10 years of work. The satellite has been in cemetery orbit since December 2006 .

reception

The satellite could be received in Europe . The transmission took place in the Ku band .

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