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New Dawn is a commercial communications satellite, the Luxembourg-based company Intelsat

He has been brought 22 April 2011 21:37 UTC with an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in conjunction with Yahsat 1A into geostationary orbit.

The order of orbital to the construction of the satellite was issued in late 2008. The project was developed through a joint venture between Intelsat with a South African investor group led by the company Convergence Partners. The total cost of this amounts to about 250 million U.S. dollars, which are applied to 15% by equity and 85 % by credit. Intelsat thereby controls at 75 % of equity.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is 14 (according to other sources, 16 or 24) Ku and 16 transponders ( 14 x 72 MHz loop-back 2 x 72 MHz uplink only cross - strapped, according to another source 28) C-band and two 2 equipped 5 x 2.7 m large antennas and will supply about 33 ° east of the African continent with television and broadband Internet from the position. The power supply is provided by four gallium-arsenide solar arrays and two 4.8 kWh lithium - ion batteries. New Dawn was built on the basis of the STAR -2 satellite bus Orbital Sciences and has a design life of 15 years.