Galaxy 13

 2003-044A

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Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 will be launched by Zenit 3SL in 2003. At 127W, the BSS 601HP satellite will cover N and Central America. Its Ku-band Horizons-1 payload will be jointly owned by Panamsat and JSAT and will use a Hawaii relay station to deliver digital services between the USA and Asia. The C-band Galaxy XIII will replace Galaxy IX and support the US domestic cable distribution network.

Galaxy 13
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2003 Oct 1	0402:59	Launch by Zenit-3SL No. 13
		T+2:24 St 2 MES
		T+2:29 St 1 sep
		T+3:31 Fairing sep
	0411	T+8:41 St 2 MECO
	0411	T+8:41 St 2 sep	-1917 x 185 x 0
	0411	T+8:51 DM-SL No. 12L MES-1
	0419	T+16:22 DM MECO-1	180 x 8353 x 0
	0449	T+46:24 DM MES-2
	0452	T+49:33 MECO-2	2378 x 35834 x 0
	0503	T+1:00:13 DM sep	2380 x 35786 x 0
2003 Oct 4			673.15 2398 x 35731 x 0.04
2003 Oct 5		LAM 1	728.86 5167 x 35732 x 0.12
2003 Oct 5		LAM 2	839.86 10324 x 35893 x 0.58
2003 Oct 8		LAM 3	1242.94 28030 x 35800 x 0.45
2003 Oct 10?		LAM 4
2003 Oct 17			1436.15 35772 x 35802 x 0.1
2003 Oct 17			671.52 2326 x 35720 x 0.06 (R/B)
2003 Oct 20		Move in at 144.5W
2003 Nov 16		Move out
2004 Jan 3		Move in at 127.0W
2004 Jan 23			1436.07 35782 x 35792 x 0.0 GEO 127.0W

The Debutantes

 https://welib.org/md5/24d9038a75f9562757a4fd710f3eec1b

September 17,2004

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass

Happy Anniversary,Baby!

 https://web.archive.org/web/20091028021809/http://www.jeanniesisters.com/fanfics/virtualseries/140.html

Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years

https://welib.org/md5/00b24e6843c88e7cd731afcc5b3c06bb

History of space vehicles : rocket boosters, space shuttles, lunar modules, satellites, space stations

 https://welib.org/md5/c784617b2b2207ffc553337b230b1bf8

Jane's Space Directory 2005-06

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Tempo 2

 1997-011A

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The Tempo satellites were owned by TCI Satellite Entertainment Inc. (TSAT), a subsidiary of TCI (Telecommunications Inc) of Littleton, Colorado, and provided high power direct TV broadcasting for the United States. It uses the SS/Loral FS-1300 bus. 

The launch of TEMPO 1 was delayed; A last minute FCC ruling that it could not use a Canadian orbital slot and frequencies caused the payload to be reduced from 27 to 11 transponders. Once regulatory problems were resolved, the processing flow for TEMPO 2 was in better shape to allow launch and so it went first. TEMPO 2 launch mass was 3558 kg. It will use the 119W slot.

A month after launch, Tempo 2 suffered a power failure during a solar storm, leaving it operating at 85 percent power. Tempo 2 had the first GaAs arrays on a high power comsat. Loral reported later that solar arrays wired at more than 60V were prone to electrical discharges and short circuits during moderate solar activity.

Tempo 2 became the property of DirecTV/El Segundo in 1999. It was renamed DirecTV-6.

TEMPO 2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1997 Mar 8	0601	Launch by Atlas AC-128	CC LC36A
	0605	SECO T+4:32
	0605	Atlas sep T+4:34
	0605	Centaur TIG1 T+4:51
	0610	Centaur MECO1 T+9:45	158 x 308 x 28.0 (s)
	0625	Centaur TIG2 T+24:37
	0626	Centaur MECO2 T+25:56
	0629	Centaur sep T+28:07
	0658	Centaur depletion
1997 Mar 8			368.35 154 x 21132 x 25.7
1997 Mar 8	2145?	LAM-1
1997 Mar 9			369.82 250 x 21126 x 25.2
1997 Mar 10	0130?	LAM-2
1997 Mar 10			468.56 266 x 26944 x 25.3
1997 Mar 11	0100?	LAM-3
1997 Mar 11			630.24 275 x 35668 x 25.3
1997 Mar 12	0300?	LAM-4
1997 Mar 12			733.41 5475 x 35647 x 12.3
1997 Mar 12	0300?	LAM-5 over 135W
1997 Mar 14			1411.26 34981 x 35614 x 0.6 GEO 116.1W+6.3E
1997 Mar 19			1434.96 35710 x 35818 x 0.6 GEO 110.1W+0.3E
1997 Mar 29			1436.08 35753 x 35819 x 0.6 GEO 109.9W
1997 Apr 11			1436.07 35753 x 35818 x 0.5 GEO 109.8W
1997 Apr 11		Solar storm damage
1997 Apr 14		mv out	1440.29 35815 x 35921 x 0.5 GEO 115.9W+1.0W
1997 Apr 18		mv in	1436.21 35759 x 35818 x 0.5 GEO 118.8W
1999 Oct 16			1436.06 35767 x 35804 x 0.1 GEO 118.8W
2003 Jul 7		mv out	GEO 119W
2003 Jul 17		mv in	GEO 110W
2003 Sep 12			1436.08 35772 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 109.7W

Club Management: February 2005

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Unity

 1998-069F

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Boeing/Huntsville makes Node 1, the first docking node for ISS. Later Nodes will be built by Alenia. Node 1 was named Unity in 1998. Unity is 5.2m long and 4.4m in diameter. The CBM is 2.1m in diameter.

Note 1 has four stowage bays.

Per the press kit, Unity/PMA1/2 launch mass was about 11600 kg. If each PMA is 1160 kg, then Unity is 9280 kg. Other data gives a mass of 9946 kg, which may represent data after outfitting. It is not clear which figures include the mass of equipment added during the STS-88 EVAs.

Per the STS data summaries, deployed mass for the mission was 12152 kg, with 152 kg for returned (presumably FGB) cargo. Accounting for 128 kg in the subsatellites, that leaves 12024 kg for the deployed mass of Unity/PMAs, or 9704 kg for Unity alone. I will adopt the latter. If this includes about 190 kg of EVA-added hardware then the mass drops to 9514 kg. We can add 234 kg of internally transferred cargo to make recover the 9280 kg estimate for Unity alone.