SES 2

SES 2 is a commercial communications satellite company SES SA of Luxembourg.

He was placed in a geostationary orbit on 21 September 2011 at 21:38:00 UTC by an Ariane -5 rocket from launch site Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, along with Arabsat 5C. The launch was carried out with a day's delay, as previously employees of the Italian company Telespazio had gone on strike.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is equipped with 24 active C-band and 24 Ku transponders and two 2.3 -meter antennas and will supply 82 ° East of North America and the Caribbean islands with telecommunication services of the position. He was Orbital Sciences Corporation built on the basis of the STAR 2.4 satellite bus and has a design life of 15 years. The structure corresponds to the SES- 1 and SES -3, with SES -2 payload even with a Commercially Hosted InfraRed Payload ( CHIRP ) said the U.S. Air Force is equipped.

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