Optus D3

Optus D3 is a commercial communications satellite of the Australian telecommunications company Optus. He is the third satellite of the D series of Optus satellites.

He was placed in a geostationary orbit on 21 August 2009 at 22:09 GMT with JCSAT 12 by an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from the rocket launch site in Kourou ELA -3.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is (8 of reserve) equipped with 32 Ku- band transponders and two 2.3 -meter antennas and will supply on the position of 156 degrees East, Australia and New Zealand with digital television. Power is supplied by two solar boom work with four surfaces with the UTJ gallium arsenide solar cells. It was built on the basis of the Star -2.4 satellite bus by Orbital Sciences and has a design life of 15 years.