Sky Mexico

 2015-026B

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SKY Mexico-1 (SKYM-1) was an Orbital Geostar-2 Ku/R-band television satellite for 78.8W, owned by SKY Mexico, a Mexican media company co-owned by DirecTV and Televisa.

Two Orbital Star (Geostar-2) satellites ordered 2013. The first to be launched appears to be SKYM-1 (SKY M

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The satellite is 3000 kg at launch (per satbeams.com 2475 kg launch 1250 kg dry; per FCC 3047 kg launch 1260 kg dry, total prop 1787 kg, BOL prop 625 kg.) Size 22.4m x 5.1 x 7.4m deployed.

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Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2015 May 27	2116:07	Launch by Ariane 5 ECA	CSG ELA3
		H+0:07 Liftoff
	2118	H+2:23 EAP sep
	2119	H+3:24 Fairing sep
	2124:54	H+8:54 EPC MECO
	2125:00	H+9:00 EPC sep
	2125:04	H+9:04 ESC-A burn
	2141:11	H+25:11 ESC-A MECO
	2143:47	H+27:47 DTV sep
	2145:48	H+29:48 Sylda sep
	2153:59	H+37:59 SKYM-1 sep
	2233:24	H+77:24 Demo Flight perigee reduction 1, LOX 30s followed by LH2
	2239:21	H+83:21 Demo Flight perigee reduction 2, LOX and LH2 simultaneously
	2300:31	H+104:31 Passivation
2015 May 29			631.33 261 x 35738 x 4.4
2015 May 29			717.33 4592 x 35740 x 2.7
2015 Jun 2			961.54 16056 x 35728 x 0.9
2015 Jun 3			1257.26 28686 x 35731 x 0.2
2015 Jun 4			1432.34 35685 x 35740 x 0.05
2015 Jun 26			1436.08 35779 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 78.8W
2015 Oct 1			1436.14 35779 x 35794 x 0.0 GEO 78.8W