MARECS 2

 1984-114B

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INMARSAT's second successful MARECS, leased from ESA, was launched in Nov 1984. The 1050 kg ECS-bus satellite was built by British Aerospace.

MARECS 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1984 Nov 10	0114:18	Launch by Ariane 3 (V11)	CSG
		T+0:32 PAP sep
		T+2:15 St 1 MECO
		T+2:20 St 1 sep
		T+2:20 Stage 2 burn
		T+3:39 Fairing sep
		T+4:24 St 2 MECO
		T+4:29 St 2 sep
		T+4:32 Stage 3 burn
		T+4:43 St 3 ullage motors sep
	0130:50	T+16:32 St 3 MECO
		T+17:36 St 3 spinup
		T+17:51 St 3 spindown
	0132:41	T+18:23 Spacenet 2 sep from Sylda 4400
	0133:44	T+19:26 Sylda sep
	0135:21	T+21:03 MARECS 2 sep
1984 Nov 11	0324:33	Mage burn 43s
		Despin, uses 33 kg of hydrazine
		Solar array deploy
1984 Nov 11			1434.79 35606 x 35916 x 3.2 GEO 135.5E+0.3E
1984 Nov 13			1431.51 35600 x 35793 x 3.1 GEO 136.2E+1.1E
1984 Nov 16		Comms payload on
1984 Dec 9			1431.77 35634 x 35769 x 3.1 GEO 165.1E+1.1E
1984 Dec 19		Braking
1984 Dec 21		mv in	1436.33 35782 x 35800 x 3.0 GEO 177.5E
1985 Jan 8		Operational, POR Spare	GEO 177.5E
1986 Jan 14			1436.07 35773 x 35799 x 2.4 GEO 177.5E
1986 Jan 15		Traffic to MCS-D
1986 Jan 15		mv out	GEO 177.5E dr
1986 Feb 15			1456.60 36178 x 36195 x 2.3 GEO 17.8E+5.1W
1986 Feb 25		AOR Primary, replaced MARECS 1	GEO 26W
1986 Mar 2			1436.08 35769 x 35802 x 2.3 GEO 25.9W
1987 Sep 25			1436.11 35774 x 35799 x 1.9 GEO 26.0W
1989 Sep 7			1436.04 35772 x 35798 x 3.0 GEO 26.0W
1990 Aug 31			1436.11 35775 x 35798 x 3.2 GEO 26.1W
1990 Sep 19			1436.15 35773 x 35802 x 2.2 GEO 25.9W+0.02W
1990 Nov		Moved to make new region
1990 Nov 11			1436.16 35776 x 35799 x 1.7 GEO 55.4W+0.02W
1990 Nov 19			1436.09 35774 x 35798 x 1.7 GEO 55.3W
1992 Jun 26			1436.08 35774 x 35798 x 3.1 GEO 55.4W
1992 Jul 7		mv out	1432.16 35689 x 35729 x 3.1 GEO 43.6W+0.9E
1992 Aug 11		mv in
1992 Sep 2			1436.07 35774 x 35798 x 3.2 GEO 15.1W
1993 Mar 21			1436.09 35765 x 35807 x 3.7 GEO 15.0W
1996 Mar 15			1436.10 35770 x 35803 x 6.0 GEO 15.0W
1997 Jan 30			1436.13 35764 x 35810 x 6.6 GEO 15.5W
1997 Feb		Move to 26W
1997 Feb 20			1436.05 35771 x 35800 x 6.7 GEO 25.9W
1999 May 17			1436.15 35769 x 35805 x 8.1 GEO 26.1W
2002 Jan 18			1436.11 35769 x 35803 x 9.60 GEO 26.3W