Telstar 11N
| Telstar 11N | |
|---|---|
| Start date | February 26, 2009 |
| Launcher | Zenith |
| Launch site | Baikonur 45/1 |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2009-009A |
| Takeoff mass | 4012 kg |
| Manufacturer | Space Systems / Loral |
| Satellite bus | LS-1300LL |
| operator | Telesat Canada |
| Playback information | |
| Transponder | 39 Ku band |
| position | |
| Actual position | 37.5 ° West |
| drive | R-4D-11 engine and 4 SPT-100 plasma engines |
| List of geostationary satellites | |
Telstar 11N is a geostationary communications satellite owned by Loral Skynet , based in New Jersey , USA , which was intended to replace the aging Telstar 11 satellite . On October 31, 2007, the Canadian company Telesat Canada merged with the US company Loral Skynet.
history
Loral Skynet commissioned its subsidiary Space Systems Loral in January 2006 to build the Telstar 11N satellite for the Canadian operator Telesat from Ottawa. It was launched on February 26, 2009 at 18:29 UTC with a Zenit-3 SLB rocket . About 8.5 minutes later, the upper stage of the Block D M-SLB type separated with the satellite from the second rocket stage and after igniting the upper stage three times and around six hours of flight, the satellite was successfully launched in a transfer orbit. The satellite reached its final position in geostationary orbit with its own drive. The planned life expectancy of the satellite is 15 years. The SCN is 34111.
reception
The 39 Ku-band transponders are aligned so that one beam each covers North America and the Caribbean , Europe and South Africa and thus provides transmission capacity for video and data applications for these areas. Together with Telstar 12, the satellite offers companies and authorities in the maritime and aviation industry the opportunity to use area-wide cellular and broadband communication from the Arctic Circle to the equator. Since August 2017 it has also been transmitting data for the Bitcoin network as part of the Blockstream Satellite project.
Web links
- Loralskynet: Technical data and footprints (English, archived 2011)
- Gunter's Space Page: Telstar-11N (English)
- Sea Launch: Telstar 11N Launch History (English, archived May 2009)
Individual evidence
- ↑ SpaceRef: Construction of Loral Skynet's Telstar 11N Satellite Begins at Space Systems / Loral
- ↑ Thomas Weyrauch: Zenit-3 SLB brings Telstar 11N into space. Raumfahrer.net, February 27, 2009, accessed January 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Telesat successfully launches Telstar 11N satellite. Telesat / PR Newswire, February 27, 2009, accessed July 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Announcing Blockstream Satellite. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Blockstream: Network Status. Retrieved August 16, 2017 .