Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Astra 1C

 1993-031A


The third SES satellite, Astra 1C was the first to be built by Hughes. The satellite had a dry mass of 1180 kg, a BOL mass of 1700 kg and a launch mass of 2790 kg.


Astra 1C 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1993 May 12  0056:32  Launch by Ariane 42L  CSG ELA2 
  T+2:21 PAL sep 
  T+3:11 St 1 sep 
  T+3:18 St 2 burn 
  T+4:10 Fairing 
  T+5:21 St 2 sep 
 0101:58 T+5:26 H10 burn 
1993 May 12  0114:02  H10 MECO (T+17:30) 
1993 May 12  0116:28  Astra sep from Cyclade/H10 (T+19:56) 
1993 May 12  0119:08  Cyclade adapter sep (T+22:36) 
1993 May 12  0120:58  AO-6 sep (T+24:26) 
   639.13 319 x 36080 x 5.0 
1993 May 14   LAM-1  738.30 5392 x 35969 x 2.9 
1993 May 15?  LAM-2 
1993 May 18?   LAM-3  
1993 May 18    1435.47 35622 x 35926 x 0.0 GEO 14.4E+0.15E 
1993 Jun 26    1436.02 35729 x 35840 x 0.0 GEO 18.9E 
1994 Jan 10    1436.04 35770 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E 
1999 Oct 15    1436.01 35747 x 35821 x 0.0 GEO 19.2E 
2006 Jul 28    1436.15 35783 x 35791 x 0.1 GEO 19.2E 

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