Tele-X

Tele-X was a television satellite of a joint venture between Norway, Sweden and Finland about the company NSAB (now SES Sirius AB ), headquartered in Sweden, television programs used mainly for the Scandinavian region. The satellite was based on the Spacebus -300 platform by Aerospatiale / MBB and Saab Ericsson Space. The three TV transponder used the BSS band (different but linearly horizontally and vertically polarized), the two data and video transponder 12/14-GHz (down respectively uplink).

The satellite was launched into space at 02:28:00 UTC from Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on April 2, 1989. The launch aboard an Ariane 2 rocket was successful, the satellite control was then carried out by the earth station Esrange (Sweden).

The spacecraft used the TV channels TV4 Sweden, Kanal 5 Sweden, NRK and filmnet, as well as some radio channels, such as TT, The Voice Danmark, Radio Sweden, Rix FM, Mix Megapol and NRJ. Also Tele-X was used for the Internet communications of universities in Eastern Europe.

On 16 January 1998 the need for the position regulating fuel was used up and the satellite was moved to a graveyard orbit. TELE -X was replaced by Sirius 3 with over 15 BSS transponders.