AsiaSat 5

AsiaSat 5 is a communications satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited based in Hong Kong.

It was built by Space Systems / Loral based on the SS/L-1300LL-Satellitenbus and 11 August 2009 at 19:47 UTC by International Launch Services (ILS ) with the Russian carrier rocket from Proton-M/Bris-M rocket launch site Baikonur launched into space. The satellite was suspended after nine hours and fifteen minutes flight time at 5:02 UTC clock in a Geotransferorbit with a perigee of about 17,949 kilometers, an apogee of about 35,786 kilometers above the Earth and an inclination of about six degrees. The transition to the geostationary orbit, the satellite reached by its own engines. His life is likely 15 years.

AsiaSat 5 will replace the previously well -positioned to 100.5 ° East AsiaSat 2 It carries 26 C -band transponders and a 3.5 x 2.4 m large antenna that cover the whole of Asia, and 14 Ku- band transponders, with a 3.5 x 2.4 meter receiving antenna, a 1.5 m 1.2 m and a controllable large receiving antenna, which will supply the south and east Asia.

Reception

The satellite can be received in Asia and parts of the Pacific.