SES-3

SES -3 is a commercial communications satellite company SES World Skies.

Mission

It was 23:16 on a Proton -M rocket from the launch site 200/39 in Baikonur (along with KazSat 2) placed in a geostationary orbit on July 15, 2011 UTC by International Launch Services (ILS ).

Payload

The three -axis stabilized satellite is equipped with 24 Ku-band and 24 C- band transponders and two 2.3 -meter antennas and will supply 103 ° West from the United States with various video, voice and data services from the position. There SES 3 is from mid-2012 successor of the in- All since September 8, 1996 AMC 1 It was built on the basis of the STAR 2.4e satellite bus by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC ) and has a design life of 15 years. He is the third satellite of a new series of spacecraft, which the manufacturer of Dulles in the U.S. state of Virginia built for SES, the 29th satellite in the SES fleet, World Skies total, and the 40th satellite for the parent company SES. The energy is supplied by two solar boom that can generate a total of around 5 kW of electrical power. In the construction of the satellite corresponds to the predecessors SES 1 and SES -2, with SES -2 payload still mentioned with a Commercially Hosted InfraRed Payload ( CHIRP ) for the U.S. Air Force is equipped.