Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Palapa C1

 1996-006A


The Palapa C-1 satellite was owned by PT Satelindo (PT Satelit Palapa Indonesia), a regional company which replaced PT Telekomunkasi as the operator of the Palapa system. It was located at 113E and will cover Indonesia, SE Asia, and parts of China, Japan, India and Australia. Launch mass was 2989 kg, on orbit mass is 1775 kg.

By 1998 Palapa C-1 was owned jointly by PT Satelindo and PT Pasifik Satelite Nusantara (PSN). The satellite lost the ability to charge its batteries in late 1998.

In Nov 2000 the satellite was reowned by Hughes Global Services, which renamed it HGS-3 and then leased the satellite to Kalitel/San Diego, who in turn leased capacity to Turk Telecom as Anatolia 1. It was then moved to 50E.

In late 2002 it was leased by Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications, which called it Paksat 1, and moved to 38E.

The national Perumtel/Telkom organization handed over the Palapa C satellites to Satelindo in 1996; Telkom then began to launch 'Telkom' satellites.


Palapa C-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1996 Feb 1  0115:01  Launch by Atlas Centaur (AC-126)  CC LC36B 
 0117  BECO 
 0117  Booster sep 
 0118  Fairing sep 
 0119  SECO 
 0119  Atlas sep 
 0120  Centaur MES1 
 0125  Centaur MECO-1  160? x 400? x 28.2? 
 0137?  Centaur MES2 
 0139?  Centaur MECO2 
 0143:47  Centaur sep  1923.25 240 x 89462 x 21.9 
   1935.12 255 x 89869 x 21.8 (TLE) 
  167 x 90327 x 21.8 (AWST) 
 1714  First apogee eq crossing at 60.6W 0.0N 
1996 Feb 4  0530?  LAM-1 
1996 Feb 6    2811.95 29234 x 89996 x 2.26 
1996 Feb    LAM-2 
1996 Feb    LAM-3 
1996 Feb 12    1509.96 35521 x 38920 x 0.22 
1996 Feb 13  1600?  LAM-4 
1996 Feb 13    1436.57 35493 x 36099 x 0.14 
1996 Feb 13    1435.97 35495 x 36074 x 0.11 
1996 Feb 19    1435.66 35481 x 36074 x 0.1 GEO 125.0E+0.1E 
1996 Feb 27    1436.18 35493 x 36083 x 0.1 GEO 124.3E+0.03W 
1996 Mar 3   Drift 
1996 Mar 16   Move in  GEO 113E 
1996 May 30    1436.12 35779 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 113.2E+0.01W 
1996 Aug 14    1436.14 35776 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 112.9E 
1996 Aug 15   Move out 
1996 Sep 12   Move in  GEO 150E 
1996 Sep 19    1436.13 35767 x 35806 x 0.1 GEO 150.5E 
1999 Oct 15    1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.5 GEO 150.9E 
2000 Nov   Renamed HGS-3 
2000 Nov 24    1436.15 35771 x 35803 x 1.4 GEO 151.3E 
2000 Dec   Reloc to 49E  1448.05 36008 x 36032 x 1.4 
2001 Jan 25    1436.10 35688 x 35885 x 1.5 GEO 49.8E 
2001 Jun 5    1436.11 35773 x 35800 x 0.1 GEO 50.0E 
2002 Nov 28    1436.06 35771 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 50.0E 
2002 Dec 5   mv out  1440.50 35867 x 35878 x 0.0 
2003 Jan 23   mv in as PAKSAT 
2003 Feb 7    1436.04 35778 x 35792 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E 
2004 Feb 10    1432.10 35773 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E 
2006 Aug 1    1436.05 35772 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 38.0E 

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