Sunday, February 7, 1999

Skynet 4B

 1988-109A


The Skynet 4B satellite was launched on 1988 Dec 11 by Ariane. It was built by BAe Stevenage with a Marconi Space Systems (Portsmouth) comms payload. In 1990 it was moved from 1W to 53E. The satellite was retired in Jul 1998.


Skynet 4B 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1988 Dec 11  0033  Launch by Ariane (V27)  CSG ELA2 
  T+0:03 PAP on 
  T+1:06 PAP sep 
  T+2:29 PAL sep 
  T+3:34 St 1 sep  
  T+3:36 St 2 MES 
  T+4:45 Fairing 
  T+5:45 St 2 sep 
  T+5:49 St 3 MES 
 0051:30  T+17:49 St 3 MECO 
 0053:48  T+20:07 Skynet 4B sep 
 0056:07 T+22:26 SPELDA sep 
 0057:58 T+24:17 Astra 1A  220? x 35550? x 6.7  
1988 Dec 13  2029?  AKM  
1988 Dec 13    1404.97 34427 x 35923 x 3.1 GEO 136.8W+8.0E 
1989 Jan 3    1413.24 34886 x 35789 x 3.0 GEO 9.3W+5.8E 
1989 Jan 8    1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 3.0 GEO 1.2W 
1989 Feb 8    1436.06 35777 x 35794 x 2.9 GEO 1.0W 
1990 Jun 21    1436.05 35776 x 35795 x 1.7 GEO 0.9W 
1990 Jul   mv out  
1990 Jul 18    1436.26 35777 x 35802 x 1.7 GEO 2.6W+0.05W 
1990 Aug 12    1431.16 35680 x 35699 x 1.5 GEO 52.8E+1.2E 
1990 Aug?   mv in at 53E 
1990 Sep 13    1436.08 35729 x 35843 x 1.5 GEO 53.0E 
1991 Jan 13   spurious? 1436.06 35758 x 35813 x 1.2 GEO 55.8E 
1991 Mar 21    1436.07 35778 x 35793 x 1.0 GEO 53.0E 
1992 Aug 15    1436.05 35768 x 35802 x 0.3 GEO 52.9E 
1993 Aug 9    1435.93 35742 x 35824 x 1.2 GEO 53.3E 
1996 May 16    1436.07 35776 x 35795 x 3.3 GEO 53.0E 
1998 Jun 16    1435.95 35778 x 35789 x 4.8 GEO 53.7E 

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