Thursday, October 8, 2015

Telstar 6

 1999-005A


FS-1300 SS/Loral Telstar 6 launched by Proton. Owned by Loral Skynet, it will provide broadcast and distribution services for the US and the Caribbean. Launch mass 3763 kg, 1469 kg dry, 2421 kg BOL. Size 3.1 x 3.0 x 5.5m, Span 31m with 8.6m antenna span.

DM3 No. 8L was replaced by No. 4L at a late date.

Telstar 6 was sold to Intelsat in 2004 as Intelsat Americas 6 or Intelsat 3006. In 2007 it was renamed Galaxy 26. In 2009 its commercial traffic was routed to Galaxy 25 and it mas moved to support US DoD UAV data traffic in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Telstar 6 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Feb 15  0512:00 Launch by Proton/DM3 No 4L KB 
 0514:07  T+2:07 St 1 sep 
 0517:35  T+5:35 St 2 sep 
 0517:44  T+5:44 Fairing sep
 0521:48  T+9:48 St 3 sep  88.44 179 x 215 x 51.6 
 0625:49  T+1:13:49 Blok DM3 burn 
 0632:59  T+1:20:59 MECO-1 643.13 201 x 35942 x 51.6 
 1133:25  T+6:21:25 Blok DM3 burn  
 1136:14  T+6:24:14 MECO-2 
 1154:01  T+6:42:01 Blok DM3 sep  6638 x 35756 x 17.4 
1999 Feb 15    757.92 6716 x 35600 x 16.9 
1999 Feb 16  0230?  AMF-1 
1999 Feb 17    940.49 15037 x 35801 x 7.9 
1999 Feb 19  0100?  AMF-2  
1999 Feb 20    1403.78 34509 x 35793 x 0.3 
1999 Feb 21  0000?  AMF-3 
1999 Feb 24    1435.68 35714 x 35842 x 0.1 GEO 94.0W+0.1E 
1999 Mar 9    1436.09 35775 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 93.0W 
1999 Nov 3    1436.11 35764 x 35809 x 0.0 GEO 93.0W 
2000 Jun 9    1436.12 35774 x 35800 x 0.0 GEO 93.1W 
2001 Apr 23   Primary CPU failed 
2004 Mar   Renamed IA-6 
2006 Aug 3    1436.10 35774 x 35798 x 0.0 GEO 93.0W 
2008 Jun 29   Power loss, half capacity 
2009 Feb 19    1436.10 35774 x 35799 x 0.02 GEO 93.0W 
2009 Feb 21   Moved to IOR for DoD comm support 
2009 Mar 16   Move in  1436.42 35759 x 35826 x 0.0 GEO 50.8E 
2014 Mar 25    1436.06 35772 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 50.0E 

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