Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Telstar 402

 1995-049A


Telstar 402 was launched on 1995 Sep 24 by Ariane from Kourou. The third stage of the Ariane 42L was an H-10+ model, dry mass 2079 kg including the equipment bay. Launch mass of Telstar 402R was 3410 kg; BOL mass was 2097 kg and dry mass is 1578 kg. The spacecraft bus was 2.2 x 2.5 x 4.0 m with a 24.5m span. The satellite was to provide C/Ku band services to the USA, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands from GEO 89W.


Telstar 402
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1995 Sep 24  0006  Launch by Ariane 42L (V78)  CSG ELA2 
 0008  PAL sep (T+2:30) 
 0009  Stage 1 sep (T+3:10)
 0009  Stage 2 MES (T+3:30) 
 0010  Fairing 01 sep (T+4:00) 
 0011  Stage 2 sep (T+5:23) 
 0011  H-10+ Stage 3 MES (T+5:28) 
 0024  Stage 3 cutoff (T+18:27) 
 0026  Telstar 402R/stage 3 sep (T+20:24)  
 0029  V78 mission complete 
1995 Sep 24    631.92 273 x 35756 x 6.9 
1995 Sep 25  1300? LAM-1 
1995 Sep 26    720.40 4744 x 35739 x 4.3 
1995 Sep 26  1300? LAM-2 
1995 Sep 27    866.65 11751 x 35714 x 2.3 
1995 Sep 27  1800? LAM-3 
1995 Sep 27    1414.99 35014 x 35730 x 0.2 
1995 Sep 29  2300? mv in 
1995 Oct 1    1435.57 35726 x 35826 x 0.2 GEO 89.1W+0.1E 
1995 Oct 3   On station  GEO 89.1W 
1997 Jan 20    1436.13 35780 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 89.0W 
1999 Oct 15    1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 89.0W 

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