Sunday, April 15, 2001

Kupon

 1997-070A


The Kupon K95K satellite was owned by Global Information Systems of Moscow, a subsidiary of the Russian Federal Central Bank. It was based on Lavochkin's Geizer system and was stationed at 55E. It provided financial data relay for the Bankir network, relaying info from HQ to a network of VSAT dishes. The phased array antenna allows coverage of different areas. Kupon's attitude control system failed unexpectedly in Mar 1998. The TsBank then transferred traffic to Intelsat 704 and two Russian comsats.


Kupon (K95K) 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1997 Nov 12 1700 Launch by Proton/DM-2M 
 1709 Stage 3 sep 
 1709  Adapter sep  184 x 190 x 51.6 
 1817? DM burn 1 
  DM MECO-1  200? x 36000? x 48.0 
 2331? DM burn 2 
 2340? DM sep 
1997 Nov 12    1450.22 36032 x 36093 x 0.0 GEO 91.4E+3.5W 
1997 Nov 20    1446.84 35672 x 36320 x 0.0 GEO 64.0E+2.7W 
1997 Dec 14    1436.10 35775 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 54.9E 
1998 Mar   end of ops
1998 Apr 4    1435.98 35772 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 55.3E 
1998 Jun 15    1435.66 35766 x 35789 x 0.2 GEO 60.2E+0.1E 
1999 Oct 16    1436.75 35795 x 35803 x 1.2 GEO 73.7E+0.2W

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