Skynet 5D

 2012-075A

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Skynet 5 satellites were be owned and operated by private contractor Paradigm Secure Communications (Astrium/Stevenage consortium) for the MoD and NATO. Paradigm (rebranded as Airbus Defense and Space Ltd from 2015) is based at Corsham in Wiltshire with the ground station teleport at Azimghur Barracks in nearby Colerne.

EADS Astrium/Stevenage E3000LX (or SX) satellite with mass of 4844 kg launch. Mexsat was 2934 kg, and Sylda/adaptors were 857 kg.

Skynet 5D
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2012 Dec 19	2149:07	Launch by Ariane 5ECA
		T+2:16 EAP sep
		T+3:17 Fairing sep
	2158:00	T+8:53 EPC MECO	-1140 x 222 x 7.75
	2158:06	T+8:59 EPC sep
	2158:10	T+9:03 ESC-A MES
	2214:07	T+25:00 ESC-A MECO
	2216:06	T+26:59 Skynet 5A sep
		T+34:30 Sylda 5 sep
	2225:11	T+36:04 Mexsat sep
		T+48:02 End of Ariane mission
			632.98 263 x 35821 x 2.0
2012 Dec 21			632.88 259 x 35819 x 2.0
2012 Dec 28		GEO 24.3E
2012 Dec 31			1436.17 35772 x 35803 x 0.2 GEO 24.5E
2013 Mar 3		Move out	1436.08 35760 x 35811 x 0.1 GEO 24.4E
2013 Mar 25		Move in	1436.08 35781 x 35791 x 0.1 GEO 52.7E
2015 Apr 1			1436.06 35770 x 35801 x 0.1 GEO 52.8E

Fengyun 4

 2016-077A

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5380 kg box + panel. SAST-5000 bus. FY-4 network at 86.5E and 105E. Size 3.51 x 3.28 x 4.16m.

FY4A
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2016 Dec 10	1611	Launch by CZ-3B/G2	XSC
	1617	MES-1
	1621	MECO-1	200? x 600? x 27?
	1632?	MES-2
	1635?	MECO-2
	1636?	Stage 3 sep	631.11 184 x 35803 x 28.4
2016 Dec 19			1436.07 35775 x 35796 x 0.4 GEO 99.5E
2017 Feb 22			1436.17 35775 x 35800 x 0.2 GEO 99.4E

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Kirameki 2

 2017-005A

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Launch of DSN 1 was delayed due to a construction accident. For DSN 2 the MELCO DS-2000 bus was used but NEC was given the contract for system integration.

DSN2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2017 Jan 24	0744:00	Launch by H2A-32
		T+1:56 SRB burnout, 68 km
		T+2:07 SRB 1-2 sep, 79 km
		T+2:10 SRB 3-4 sep, 83 km
		T+3:25 Fairing sep, 150 km
	0750	T+6:40 MECO, 242 km, 6.1 km/s
		T+6:48 Stage 1 sep, 245 km, 6.1 km/s
		T+6:54 SEIG-1, 247 km, 6.1 km/s
	0755	T+11:07 SECO-1 262 km, 7.7 km/s
	0806	T+22:46 SEIG-2, 189 km, 7.8 km/s
	0810	T+26:37 SECO-2 197 km 10.2 km/s
	0818	Stage 2 sep	190 x 35000? x 19?

VRSS-2

 2017-060A

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Satélite Antonio José de Sucre (Vrss-2)

Antonio Jose de Sucre Launch to 1030 LTDN SSO. 1.53 x 1.65 x 1.87m box + 2 panels, 880 kg

The second Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite, VRSS-2, also named Antonio Jose de Sucre (or just Sucre for short) was launched on Oct 9 into a sun-synchronous orbit in the 1030 local time plane by China for ABAE, the Bolivaran Agency for Space Activities and MPPCTII (Ministry of People's Power for Science, Tech and Intermediate Industries). The satellite was built in China and uses the CAST-2000 bus.

VRSS2
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2017 Oct 9	0413:14	Launch by CZ-2D Y30	JQ
		T+2:36 St 1 MECO
		T+2:36 St 1 sep
		St 2 burn
		T+3:06 Fairing sep
		T+5:34 Stage 2 MECO
	0423	T+10:26? Stage 2 VECO
	0424?	T+11:11? Stage 2 sep	97.56 630 x 655 x 98.0