Friday, May 28, 1999

Aussat 1

 1985-076B


The Aussat satellites were owned by the company Aussat Pty. of Australia; three HS376 satellites were built for the project to provide Australian domestic satellite communications. Aussat carried 15 Ku-band transponders, whose direct broadcast capacity was used by the Australian Broadcasting Co. (ABC).

The Aussat K1 apogee burn left it in a 1284 min orbit; a burn the next day raised the orbit to 1318 min and then on Sep 1 to 1421 min, in the geostationary ring. Archival elements for early 1993 are double valued, one subset remaining at 160E and another subset moving to 164E and staying there for several months. The orbit was raised in mid 1993.


Aussat K1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1985 Aug 27  1733  PAM-D launch from Discovery, LEO 
 1818? PAM-D burn 
 1819? PAM-D burnout 
 1821? PAM-D sep 
1985 Aug 28    651.56 754 x 36281 x 24.4 
1985 Aug 30  0552:18  Star 30BP burn 
1985 Aug 30    1284.59 29254 x 36278 x 0.9  
1985 Aug 31  0320? mv 
1985 Aug 31    1318.70 30644 x 36268 x 0.8 GEO 146.3E+32.1E 
1985 Sep 1  0100? mv 
1985 Sep 1    1421.03 35023 x 35958 x 0.2 GEO 162.1E+3.8E 
1985 Sep 2   mv in  
1985 Sep 3    1436.02 35606 x 35964 x 0.1 GEO 162.4E 
1985 Oct 1    1436.18 35781 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 160.0E 
1985 Oct 1   Into service 
1986 Sep    GEO 160E 
1987 May 16    1436.10 35775 x 35797 x 0.0 GEO 160.0E 
1990 May 25    1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 160.0E 
1992 Jan 28    1436.10 35781 x 35791 x 0.0 GEO 160.0E 
1993 Jan 5  1436.09 35775 x 35797 x 0.0 GEO 160.0E 

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