SBS 3 (satellite)
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SBS 3 was a geostationary communications satellite designed and manufactured by Hughes (now Boeing) on the HS-376 platform. It was ordered by Satellite Business Systems, which later sold it to Hughes Communications. It had a Ku band payload and operated on the 94°W longitude.[3]
Quick Facts Mission type, Operator ...
Mission type | Communications |
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Operator | SBS |
COSPAR ID | 1982-110B[1] |
SATCAT no. | 13651 |
Mission duration | 12 years, 6 months and 21 days (achieved) 41 years, 5 months, 23 days (in orbit) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | HS-376 |
Manufacturer | Hughes Space and Communications |
Launch mass | 1,117 kilograms (2,463 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 11 November 1982, 12:19 (1982-11-11UTC12:19Z) UTC |
Rocket | Space Shuttle Columbia STS-5 |
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
Contractor | NASA |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Decommissioned |
Deactivated | June 02, 1995 (1995-06-03) |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Geostationary |
Longitude | 94° W[2] |
Eccentricity | 0.73391 |
Perigee altitude | 294 kilometres (183 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 37,127 kilometres (23,070 mi) |
Inclination | 23.7° |
Period | 659.1 minutes |
Epoch | November 11, 1982 |
Transponders | |
Band | 14 Ku band |
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