Thursday, February 26, 2015

Koreasat 2

 1996-003A


Koreasat 2 was launched by Delta while the STS-72 astronauts were preparing to release the OAST-Flyer satellite. It was a Series 3000 satellite built at the LMAS East Windsor, NJ plant. It is also known as Mugunghwa 2. Koreasat 2 is 2.1 x 2.3 x 3.4m in size with a 15.5m span. Launch mass is 1459 kg, on orbit 833 kg, dry mass 641 kg. location is 116E.

In Jul 2009, ABS bought Koreasat 2 from KT and renamed it ABS-1A.


Koreasat 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1996 Jan 14  1110:00  Launch by Delta 7925 (Delta 231)  CC LC17B 
  Az 93 deg 
 1111  GEM x 3 ignite (T+1:06) 
 1111  GEM x 6 sep (T+1:06, alt 18 km) 
 1112  GEM x 2 sep (T+2:11, alt 53 km) 
 1114  Stage 1 MECO (T+4:20) 
 1114  Stage 1 sep (T+4:30) 
 1114  Stage 2 burn SEIG-1 (T+4:34) 
 1114  Fairing sep (T+4:58) 
 1120:00  Stage 2 SECO-1  170? x 260? x 28? 
 1134:49?  T+24:49s Delta burn SEIG-2 43s? 
 1135:33  Delta burn SECO-2  162? x 1366? x 28? 
 1221:13? Stage 2 burn SEIG-3 (T+1:11:13s)  185? x 1339? x 28? 
 1221:54? Stage 2 SECO-3 (T+1:11:54s)  1279? x 1343? x 28? 
 1222?  Delta sep  
 1223:24? PAM-D burn 88s  1270? x 1351? x 28? 
 1224:52?  TECO   
 1226:44?  T+1:17:00? PAM-D sep  655.56 1369 x 35869 x 21.0 
 1245s  Delta depletion  103.54 385 x 1467 x 25.3 (Delta) 
1996 Jan 14    646.52 1357 x 35420 x 21.0 
1996 Jan 16  2330?  Star 30 AKM burn over 173E 
1996 Jan 16    1435.89 35309 x 36256 x 0.56 GEO 160E 
1996 Jan 17  0140   1439.53 35409 x 36299 x 0.54 
1996 Jan 17  0950   1442.72 35493 x 36339 x 0.26 
1996 Jan 21  0950   1448.60 35732 x 36331 x 0.24 
1996 Jan 29  1048   1444.36 35792 x 36015 x 0.13 
1996 Jan 30  0615   1444.07 35767 x 36117 x 0.14 
1996 Feb 1  1215   1439.76 35776 x 35941 x 0.13 
1996 Feb 4  1215   1437.13 35771 x 35843 x 0.09 
1996 Feb 7  1019   1436.67 35777 x 35819 x 0.08 GEO 116E+0.15W 
1996 Mar 9    1436.08 35776 x 35796 x 0.0 GEO 116.0E 
1999 Oct 15    1436.14 35782 x 35792 x 0.4 GEO 116.0E 
2000 Mar 24    1436.13 35779 x 35795 x 0.6 GEO 115.9E 
2000 Apr 8?  Orbit raise 
2000 Apr 18    1439.95 35856 x 35867 x 0.8 GEO 104.4E+0.98W 
2000 May 10   mv out  1440.05 35859 x 35868 x 0.9 GEO 82.7E+1.0W 
2000 Jul 5   Move in at 45E (possibly a mis-id?) 
2000 Jul 11    1436.07 35774 x 35797 x 1.0 GEO 44.9E 
2000 Oct 17   Move out from 46E 
2000 Oct 21    1436.13 35784 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 113.0E 
2001 Apr 6    1436.29 35780 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 112.5E 
2002 Jun 1    1436.06 35774 x 35796 x 0.02 GEO 112.9E 
2006 Jan 2    1436.13 35784 x 35790 x 0.0 GEO 113.0E 
2006 Oct 31    1436.08 35770 x 35802 x 0.02 GEO 113.1E 
2006 Nov 17   Move in at 114E 
2007 Jan 18    1436.20 35779 x 35798 x 0.1 GEO 114.1E 
2007 Jan   Moved to 116.5E 
2007 Feb 15    1436.20 35782 x 35794 x 0.2 GEO 116.4E 
2009 Jul 12    1436.12 35783 x 35790 x 2.4 GEO 116.5E 
2009 Jul   Bought by Asia Broadcast Satellite as ABS-1A 
2009 Aug 10   Move out  1436.15 35782 x 35793 x 2.5 GEO 116.5E 
2009 Sep 22   Move in  1436.36 35785 x 35798 x 2.6 GEO 74.9E 
2014 Jan 9   Move out 1436.10 35780 x 35793 x 6.1 GEO 75.0E 
2014 Jan 19   Move in  1436.32 35782 x 35799 x 6.1 GEO 78.0E 
2015 Jan 20  1436.11 35807 x 35843 x 6.8 GEO 78.0E 

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