Saturday, May 6, 2017

Telstar 7

 1999-052A


Mass 3790 kg full, 1537 kg dry, 2421 kg BOL. 3.12m h, 31.1m span. 129E POR for N American comms. FS-1300 satellite for Loral Skynet.

Telstar 7 was sold to Intelsat in 2004 as Intelsat Americas 7. In Nov 2004 a power failure threatened the satellite but it was reactivated after a few days. In 2007 it was renamed Galaxy 27.


Telstar 7 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1999 Sep 25  0629 Launch by Ariane 44LP V121 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 sep 
  T+5:44 St 2 sep 
 0634 T+5:49 St 3 burn 
 0647 T+18:46 MECO 
 0650 T+21:38 St 3 sep 
   1258.02 175 x 64273 x 7.0 (52B) 
   1152.61 129 x 59944 x 7.0 (52A) 
1999 Sep 26  1200?  LAM-1 
1999 Sep 27    1562.55 16531 x 59922 x 1.9 
1999 Sep 28  1600?  LAM-2 
1999 Sep 29    2037.14 33902 x 59805 x 0.4 
1999 Sep 30  1830?  LAM-3 over 160E 
1999 Oct 4    1388.29 33965 x 35725 x 0.3 
1999 Oct 6  0300?  LAM-4 over 133W 
1999 Oct 6    1431.08 35644 x 35732 x 0.1 GEO 132.8W+1.2E 
1999 Oct 17    1436.08 35775 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 129.0W 
1999 Nov 3    1436.07 35774 x 35797 x 0.0 GEO 129.0W 
2004 Mar   Renamed IA-7 
2004 Nov 28  0730  Power failure, attitude control lost 
2004 Dec 3   Reactivated 
2006 Aug 4    1436.05 35775 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 129.0W 
2007 Feb   Renamed Galaxy 27 
2010 Apr 1    1436.09 35776 x35795 x 0.0 GEO 129.0W 
2010 Apr 1   Move out of GEO 
2010 May 12    1424.10 35542 x 35560 x 0.0 GEO 5.1W+3.0E/d 
2010 Jun 1   Move in  1436.18 35777 x 35799 x 0.0 GEO 45.1E 
2013 Mar 31    1436.09 35776 x 35796 x 0.1 GEO 45.1E

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