Arabsat 1A

 1985-015A

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Arabsat 1A was an Aerospatiale/Ford Spacebus 100 (later reclassified as Spacebus 1000) comsat for ASCO, the Arab Satellite Communications Organization.

Early orbit operations by COMSAT/DC, with long termm control from Dihrab (near Riyadh), Saudi Arabia and a backup station in Tunis. Arabsat 1A was moved off station in late 1991 and retired in mid 1992.

Arabsat 1A
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1985 Feb 8	2322:00	Launch by Ariane 3	CSG
		T+0:30 PAP out
		T+0:33 PAP sep
		T+2:22 St 1 sep
		T+2:22 Stage 2 burn
		T+3:37 Fairing sep
	2326:27	T+4:27 St 2 MECO
	2326:32	T+4:32 St 2 sep
	2326:33	T+4:33 Stage 3 burn
	2338:40	T+16:40 Stage 3 MECO
	2341:12	T+19:12 Arabsat sep
	2342:12	T+20:12 SYLDA 4400 sep
	2342:48	T+20:48 Brasilsat 1 sep
		Arabsat at 65 rpm
1985 Feb 9	0500?	Apo 1
	1030?	Peri 1
	1600?	Apo 2
1985 Feb 9	1520?	LAM burn 1 at 2nd apo
1985 Feb 9			875.87 12017 x 35874 x 1.7
1985 Feb 10	2050		875.57 12039 x 35838 x 1.6
1985 Feb 11	1115?	LAM-2	1384.62 33715 x 35830 x 0.1 GEO 9.6W+13.4E
1985 Feb 13		LAM-3	1427.16 35322 x 35900 x 0.1 GEO 13.0E
1985 Feb 17			1440.05 35779 x 35949 x 0.1 GEO 19.3E+1.0W
1985 Feb 25			1436.97 35752 x 35855 x 0.1 GEO 21.2E+0.2W
1985 Mar		On station	GEO 19E
1985 Apr 26			1436.07 35756 x 35815 x 0.5 GEO 19.0E
1985 Nov 11			1436.28 35735 x 35844 x 0.1 GEO 18.9E
1986 Mar 18			1436.06 35766 x 35805 x 0.1 GEO 19.0E
1987 May 11			1436.06 35738 x 35833 x 0.1 GEO 19.0E
1988 Mar 20			1436.05 35753 x 35817 x 0.0 GEO 18.9E
1988 Aug 15			1436.08 35722 x 35849 x 0.1 GEO 18.8E
1989 Mar 7			1436.04 35760 x 35810 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E
1990 Aug 4			1436.06 35111 x 36460 x 0.0 GEO 20.2E
1990 Aug 30			1436.04 35734 x 35836 x 0.0 GEO 19.1E
1991 Nov 20			1436.04 35698 x 35872 x 0.9 GEO 19.1E
1991 Nov 25		mv out	1437.83 35670 x 35971 x 0.1 GEO 19.7E+0.4W
1991 Dec 29			1437.64 35663 x 35970 x 0.1 GEO 5.6E+0.4W
1992 Jan 8			1434.96 35716 x 35812 x 1.0 GEO 22.7E+0.3E
1992 Feb 5			1435.44 35752 x 35794 x 1.1 GEO 26.5E+0.2E
1992 Jul 26			1434.71 35706 x 35812 x 1.5 GEO 79E+0.3E