Afghansat 1

Afghansat 1 or Eutelsat 48D (formerly Eutelsat 28B, 48B and Eutelsat Eutelsat W2M ) is a television satellite, the ( European Telecommunications Satellite Organization ) is operated by the company Eutelsat.

History

The satellite is produced as Eutelsat W2M based on the Indian satellite bus platform ISRO I- 3K (I- 3000), which came into use also in the largely identical satellites INSAT -4A and INSAT -4B. It was built in collaboration between Antrix ( a commercial offshoot of ISRO ) with EADS Astrium, including in 2005 by a contract to the foundation (final signature February 20, 2006 ) was laid. The payload from Astrium, came to India and installed there on the platform and tested comes.

Eutelsat W2M was taken on December 20, 2008 at 22:35 UTC by an Ariane 5 ECA from the Guiana Space Centre together with Hot Bird 9 into geostationary transfer orbit and tested by ISRO. After the tests, during transfer to the operating position at 16 ° Ost016, a defect occurred in the power supply. January 28, 2009 Eutelsat announced that the satellite does not satisfy the required by the operator to the manufacturer's requirements and would not integrated into Eutelsat network.

Beginning of January 2010 W2M was still shifted to 16 ° East to replace the decrepit Satellite Eutelsat W2, which precipitated on January 27, 2010. After the launched in October 2011 Eutelsat W3C 16 ° East intensified, could be W2M deducted and transferred to 48 ° Ost048, where he received according to the new naming convention, the designation Eutelsat 48B. Finally, he was shifted to 28.5 ° Ost028.5 and renamed Eutelsat 28B. Since, however, he can not send there, he was moved in February 2014, to 48 ° East.