SES 3

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SES 3 is classified as:

Geostationary

NORAD ID: 37748

Int'l Code: 2011-035A

Perigee: 35,862.8 km

Apogee: 35,877.4 km

Inclination: 0.0 °

Period: 1,440.0 minutes

Semi major axis: 42241 km

RCS: 2 m² (large)

Launch date: July 15, 2011
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

Built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia, SES 3 is beginning a 15-year mission to deliver educational, international and high-definition programming across the United States and the Caribbean for SES World Skies. It's the second of three similar spacecraft launched for SES World Skies, following a Proton flight with SES 1 last year and the planned launch of SES 2 on an Ariane 5 rocket in August or September. SES 3 will replace the aging AMC 1 spacecraft launched on an Atlas 2A rocket in 1996. After a series of thruster firings to guide itself to its final orbital post, SES 3 will begin service from 103 degrees west longitude. The craft's communications payload includes 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders for traditional television broadcast programming and mobile data transmission, broadband Internet and private networks, according to SES World Skies.

1 37748U 11035A   16273.39432010 -.00000129  00000-0  00000+0 0  9992
2 37748   0.0347 294.8830 0001733 270.8873 201.7748  1.00273848 19123

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC