TV-Sat 1

 1987-095A

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The Deutsche Bundespost (DBP Telekom) ordered two direct broadcast satellites from MBB and Aerospatiale's Eurosatellite consortium. The Spacebus 300 class TV-SAT was launched in Nov 1987 but a solar panel failed to open. The satellite was used for systems tests by GSOC.

TV-SAT
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1987 Nov 21	0219:03	Launch by Ariane V20	CSG
		T+2:22 St 1 sep
		T+2:25 St 2 MES
		T+3:35 Fairing
		T+4:33 St 2 sep
	0223:41	T+4:38 St 3 MES
	0235:40	T+16:37 St 3 MECO
	0238:22	T+19:19 TVSAT H10 sep
	0239:22	T+20:19 H10 avoidance
	0244	Solar panel failed to deploy
			200 x 36136 x 4.0
	0800?	Apo 1
	1300?	Peri 1
	1800?	Apo 2
	2330?	Peri 2
1987 Nov 22	0500?	Apo 3
	1030?	Peri 3
	1600?	Apo 4
1987 Nov 22	1459s	T+36:40s Apo 4 LAM-1 burn 60min	12200? x 35780?
	2300?	Peri 4
1987 Nov 23	0600?	Apo 5 over 108E
	1400?	Peri 5
	2100?	Apo 6 over 112W
1987 Nov 23	2039s	T+66:20 LAM-2 burn 35min	19200? x 35780?
1987 Nov 24	0700?	Peri 6
	1500?	Apo 7 over 15W
	2330?	Peri 7
1987 Nov 25
	0800?	Apo 8 87E
	1700?	Peri 8
1987 Nov 26	0100?	Apo 9
	1000?	Peri 9
	1700?	Apo 10
1987 Nov 26	1619s?	T+134h LAM-3 burn
1987 Nov 30			1422.72 35216 x 35831 x 0.1 GEO 1.1W+3.4E
1987 Dec 27			1422.62 35222 x 35822 x 0.1 GEO 89.4E+3.4E
1988 Feb 4			1435.08 35713 x 35819 x 0.1 GEO 33.2W+0.2E
1988 Feb		Turned over to GSOC for engineering tests
1988 Apr 13		mv in
1988 Apr 14			1436.02 35772 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 19.2W+0.01E
1988 May 23			1435.93 35778 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 18.5W
1988 Jun 27		orbit raise
1988 Jul 13			1447.68 36002 x 36024 x 0.1
1988 Sep 18			1435.34 35569 x 35973 x 0.1 GEO 41.7W+0.2E
1988 Oct			1433.68 35482x35996x0.1 GEO23W+0.6/d
1988 Dec 10			1433.70 35473 x 36006 x 0.1 GEO 5.1E+0.6E
1989 Feb 18			1433.18 35448 x 36011 x 0.2 GEO 51.6E+0.7E