Tuesday, May 27, 2014

GE-4

 1999-060A


GE-4 replaced Spacenet 4 at 101W. GE 4 used an A2100AX bus for video and data services for GE American Comms. Inc. Launch by Ariane Nov 13 1999. Cover both Canada and USA with C and Ku-band wide beams, plus a Ku-band beam for S America. Mass 3903 kg launch, 1755 kg dry. Size 6.23h 26.8m span.

GE 4 was renamed AMC 4. In 2008, a partial solar array power loss led to C-band users being transferred to AMC 2.

In 2010 AMC-4 was moved to 67W to reserve an Andean-nations orbital Simon Bolivar 2 slot.


GE 4 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Nov 13  2254  Launch by Ariane 44LP V123 CSG ELA2 
  T+1:06 PAP sep 
  T+2:27 PAL sep 
  T+3:32 St 1 sep 
  T+3:35 St 2 burn 
  T+4:41 Fairing 01 sep 
  T+5:44 St 2 sep 
 2259 T+5:49 St 3 burn 
 2312 T+18:46 MECO 
 2315 T+21:38 GE 4 sep 
 2315 T+21:42 sep burn 
  T+23:14 V123 mission end 
1999 Nov 13    629.49 210 x 35694 x 6.0 
1999 Nov 15   LAM-1 675.61 2558 x 35965 x 4.6 
1999 Nov 19   LAM-2 
1999 Nov 19    924.01 144414 x 35679 x 1.5 
1999 Nov 21  1430?  LAM-3 
1999 Nov 23    1434.19 35693 x 35805 x 0.05 GEO 74.5W+0.4E 
1999 Nov 25    1436.05 35769 x 35802 x 0.3 GEO 74.6W+0.0E 
1999 Dec 1    1436.24 35784 x 35794 x 0.0 GEO 72.2W+0.04W 
1999 Dec 9   move out of GEO 72W 
1999 Dec 21   move into GEO 101W 
2000 Jan 11    1436.96 35737 x 35869 x 0.1 GEO 101.0W 
2006 Aug 3    1436.09 35781 x 35791 x 0.0 GEO 101.0W 
2008   partial power loss 
2010 Jul 16    1436.14 35774 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 101.1W 
2010 Jul 16   mv out 
2010 Aug 4   mv in at 67W as Simon Bolivar 2 
2010 Sep 6    1436.11 35772 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 67.0W 
2013 Oct 12    1436.11 35778 x 35795 x 0.1 GEO 67.0W 

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