Astra 4A

Astra 4A ( Sirius 4 until 2010 ) is a Multi-Missions-Ku/Ka-Band-Satellit, built by Lockheed Martin, based on the A2100AX platform.

The geostationary satellite was launched on 17 November 2007 at 22:39 UTC under the name Sirius 4 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and is positioned at 4.8 ° East, from where he since January 2008 on television, radio and broadband services across Europe, Africa and the Middle East offers. He took over all the channels of Sirius 2 and Sirius 3. After the complete takeover of the operating company SES Sirius by SES Astra, the satellite was given its present name. Astra 4A reached by its own account of SES Astra about 20 million households in Europe.