Garuda 1

 2000-011A

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PT Asia Cellular Satellites / ACES Asia Cellular Satellite System for hand held and mobile telephone service to Asia, 1999 early 12-m dia L-band antennas proposed by Lockheed Martin/Bethesda. Contract to LM/Bethesda SN950710-2 for two A2100AXX L-band satellite. Launch by Proton / DM3. Payload integration at Newton, Pennsylvania; spacecraft integration at Sunnyvale. In 1999 LM-GT invested in ACES and the ACES company relocated from Jakarta to Bermuda.

Garuda 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2000 Feb 12	0910:54	Launch by Proton	KB PL81 PU23
		T+02:02 Stage 2 burn
		T+02:03 RK-1 Stage 1 sep
		T+05:30 St 2 MECO
		T+05:31 RK-2 Stage 2 sep
		T+05:40 Stage 3 burn
		T+05:42 GO sep
		T+09:38 GK St 3 MECO
	0920:37	T+09:43 St 3 VECO
		T+09:43 Stage 3 sep, 7.28km/s	79.80 -630 x 168 x 51.61
	0920:38	T+9:44 SOZ
	0921:32	T+10:38 DM adapter sep
	0926:39	T+00:15:45 DM burn 1 69s
	0927:45	T+00:16:51 DM MECO-1	170 x 170 x 51.6
	1024:03	T+01:13:09 DM MES-2
	1030	T+01:20:27 DM MECO-2	170 x 36000 x 51.5
	1527	T+06:17:48 DM MES-3
		T+6:17:49 SOZ sep
	1529	T+6:19:51 DM MECO-3
	1550:44	T+6:39:51 Blok DM 15L sep	6233 x 35946 x 16.0
		T+8:24:51 Depletion
	1739	T+8:29:51 Depletion MECO
2000 Feb 14		LAM-1	805.17 8589 x 35993 x 14.0
2000 Feb 16		LAM-2	907.93 13667 x 35995 x 10.2
2000 Feb 18		LAM-3	907.20 13337 x 35992 x 10.2
2000 Feb 19	1500?	LAM-4
2000 Feb 21			1389.13 33731 x 35993 x 3.4
2000 Feb 22	1300?	LAM-5
2000 Feb 22			1441.62 35787 x 36001 x 3.0 GEO 127.5E+1.3E
2000 Feb 24		Antenna deploy
2000 Feb 25			1438.81 35772 x 35907 x 3.0 GEO 123E
2000 Mar 1			1436.12 35775 x 35798 x 3.0 GEO 122.9E
2000 May 23			1436.23 35769 x 35809 x 2.8 GEO 122.6E