Thursday, December 24, 1998

Spacenet F2

 1984-114A


GTE Spacenet became GTE Americom prior to 1995 Jan. The satellite had a mass of 1195 kg. 1.0m x 1.3 x 1.6m bus, 705 BOL. Another source gives 703 kg (BOL?) with 372 kg of hydrazine and 68 kg ABM case; 527 kg ABM prop

Control was SOCC/East Windsor and GTE Spacenet control at McLean, Virginia.

Spacenet F2 was sold to Chinasat in 1997 and moved to 115E. It was renamed Chinasat 5R.

SYLDA 4400 upper part is 96 kg, 2.2m long 2.8m dia. Lower part is 140 kg, 3.1m long 1.9m dia, remains with stage 3. (However, PK says total is only 192 kg). Stage 3 is 1165 kg, 10.4m long 2.6m dia (thus 13.5m long 1305 kg with SYLDA lower half).


Spacenet F2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1984 Nov 10  0114:18  Launch by Ariane 3 (V11)  CSG 
  T+0:32 PAP sep 
  T+2:15 St 1 MECO 
  T+2:20 St 1 sep 
  T+2:20 Stage 2 burn 
  T+3:39 Fairing sep 
  T+4:24 St 2 MECO 
  T+4:29 St 2 sep 
  T+4:32 Stage 3 burn 
  T+4:43 St 3 ullage motors sep 
 0130:50 T+16:32 St 3 MECO 
  T+17:36 St 3 spinup 
  T+17:51 St 3 spindown 
 0132:41 T+18:23 Spacenet 2 sep from Sylda 4400 
 0133:44 T+19:26 Sylda sep 
 0135:21 T+21:03 MARECS 2 sep 
  Spacenet at 65 rpm 
 0136  Orbit correciton  
 0700? Apo 1 
 1200? Peri 1 
 1700? Apo 2 
 2230? Peri 2 
1984 Nov 11  0330? Apo 3 
 0900?  Peri 3 
 1400? Apo 4 
 1930? Peri 4 
 0100? Apo 5 
 0600? Peri 5 
 1100? Apo 6 
 1630? Peri 6 
 2200? Apo 7  
1984 Nov 12    631.61 217 x 35976 x 6.9 
1984 Nov 13  0300? Peri 7 
 0800? Apo 8  
 1300? Peri 8 
1984 Nov 13    631.71 221 x 35798 x 7.0 
1984 Nov 13  1853? Star 30B burn 43s at 9th apo 
 1900? Apo 9 
1984 Nov 13    1441.68 35521 x 36270 x 0.1 GEO 96.9W+1.4W 
1984 Nov 16    1426.78 35549 x 36658 x 0.2 GEO 100.2+2.3E 
1984 Nov 29    1430.40 35557 x 35792 x 0.2 GEO 69.2W+1.4E 
1984 Dec 3   mv in 1436.03 35778 x 35792 x 0.2 GEO 69.2W 
1986 Nov 1    1436.14 35784 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 69.2W 
1989 May 31    1436.12 35784 x 35789 x 0.0 GEO 69.0W 
1991 May 1    1436.09 35784 x 35788 x 0.0 GEO 69.0W 
1993 Sep 10    1436.14 35783 x 35791 x 0.0 GEO 69.0W 
1995 Oct 19    1436.12 35777 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 69.0W 
1997 May 29    1436.14 35782 x 35793 x 0.2 GEO 68.9W 
1997 Jun   Drift 
1997 Jun?   Purchased by Chinasat 
1997 Jul 2    1436.31 35790 x 35791 x 0.2 GEO 70.1W+0.06W 
1997 Jul 9   mv out  GEO 70W+2.0W/d 
1997 Jul 17    1444.00 35931 x 35951 x 0.3  
1997 Jul 25    1444.00 35932 x 35949 x 0.3 
1997 Sep 2   mv in  GEO 115.5E 
1997 Sep 12    1436.22 35785 x 35793 x 0.4 GEO 115.5E 
1998 May 12    1436.20 35780 x 35797 x 0.9 GEO 115.7E 
1998 May 30    1436.29 35787 x 35793 x 0.9 GEO 115.1E 

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