Telstar 7

 1999-052A

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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
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
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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USA-269

 2016-047A

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This QUASAR flew on an Atlas V 421 rather than a 401, presumably implying a larger payload mass. Launch was designated NROL-61. The satellite is thought to use a Boeing 702 bus.

Ted Molcan inferred that the launch payload of the previous misisons was around 4300 kg with 2600 kg at BOL. This mission would be somewhere between 5200 and 5900 kg in GTO and 3200 and 3700 kg at BOL. 

USA 269
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2016 Jul 28	1237	Launch by Atlas AV-065	CC
		T+1:33 SRM cutoff
		SRM sep
		T+3:37? BECO
		T+4:11? CCB Stage 1 sep
	1241?	Centaur MES-1
	1241	T+4:30? Fairing sep
	1249?	MECO-1	186 x 1094 x 28.7
			414.2 173 x 5039 x 25.3 (UN)
		MES-2
		T+28:20 MECO-2	1088 x 35816 x 18.7
	1310?	Spacecraft sep
	1345?	MES-3
		T+1:05:00 MECO-3 deorbit	-252 x 28009 x 18.9
	1448	Mission success reported
	2106?	T+8:22 Centaur reentry S of Hawaii
2016 Jul 30			649.04 1111 x 35796 x 18.7
2016 Aug 1			750.96 6169 x 35809 x 12.7
2016 Aug 5			1258.59 28698 x 35774 x 5.8
2016 Aug 7			1378.07 33499 x 35785 x 5.3
2016 Aug 11			1436.26 35785 x 35794 x 5.0 GEO 92.1E