AsiaSat 9
AsiaSat communications satellite
AsiaSat 9 or Thaicom 7 is a geostationary communications satellite which is operated by the Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat) and was launched into orbit on 28 September 2017.
Satellite description
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), announced in December 2013 that it has been chosen by AsiaSat, to build the AsiaSat 9 communications satellite. AsiaSat 9 was built by Space Systems/Loral , and is based on the LS-1300 satellite bus .[2] [3] The satellite carries 28 C-band transponders and 32 Ku-band and is positioned at a longitude of 122° East,[4] providing coverage over southern Asia , Australia and New Zealand .[5]
Launch
Krunichev by International Launch Services (ILS) was contracted to launch AsiaSat 9 using a Proton-M / Briz-M launch vehicle . The launch took place from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur , on 28 September 2017, at 18:52:16 UTC . It replaces AsiaSat 4 .
See also
References
Future spacecraft in italics .
January February March April May June
QZS-2
ViaSat-2 , Eutelsat 172B
Dragon CRS-11 (NICER , BRAC Onnesha , GhanaSat-1 , Mazaalai , Nigeria EduSat-1 )
GSAT-19
EchoStar 21
Progress MS-06
HXMT / Insight , ÑuSat 3
ChinaSat 9A
Cartosat-2E , Max Valier Sat , Aalto-1 , Blue Diamond , Green Diamond , Red Diamond , CICERO-6 , COMPASS-2 , InflateSail , Lemur-2 × 8 , LituanicaSAT-2 , ROBUSTA-1B
Kosmos 2519 / Nivelir, Kosmos 2521 / Sputnik Inspektor
BulgariaSat-1
Iridium NEXT × 10
EuropaSat / Hellas Sat 3 , GSAT-17
July August September October November December Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).