ARABSAT 5A

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ARABSAT 5A is classified as:

NORAD ID: 36745

Int'l Code: 2010-032B

Perigee: 35,773.4 km

Apogee: 35,813.8 km

Inclination: 0.1 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: 11.1427 m² (large)

Launch date: June 26, 2010
Source: Arab Satellite Communications Organization (AB)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

Arabsat-5A, a Eurostar-3000 model, has a launch mass of 4,800kg and a spacecraft power of 11kW at the end of its 15-year service lifetime. Equipped with a payload featuring 16 active transponders in C-band and 24 in Ku-band, the multi-mission Arabsat-5A satellite will take over from Arabsat-2B and provide additional capacity at 30.5º East for a large range of satellite communications services such as television backhauling and broadcasting, telephony, business communications, Internet trunking and the provision of VSAT and other interactive services, over sub-Saharan Africa, North-Africa and the Middle East.

1 36745U 10032B   19196.18276997  .00000142  00000-0  00000+0 0  9992
2 36745   0.0758  57.5937 0004798  65.1350 266.2260  1.00272272 33273

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC