Belintersat-1
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Belintersat-1 is a deployed geostationary telecommunications satellite, manufactured by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and Thales Alenia Space for the Belarusian government's company Belintersat.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Belintersat-1
- Spaceflight.image
- Belintersat-1 2016 stamp 1.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Belintersat-1 on a 2016 stamp of Belarus
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Telecommunicational services
- Spaceflight.operator
- Belintersat
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 15 years (planned)
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2016-001A
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- DFH-4
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Thales Alenia Space
- Spaceflight.power
- 10,150 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 15 January 2016
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Long March CZ-3B/E
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Geosynchronous
- Spaceflight.orbit_longitude
- 51.5° E
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Belintersat-1 is a deployed geostationary telecommunications satellite, manufactured by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and Thales Alenia Space for the Belarusian government's company Belintersat.
It provides a wide range of telecommunicational services, including satellite TV and radio broadcasting and broadband internet access. It lifted off on a Chinese Long March CZ-3B/E rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) on January 15, 2016, 16:57 GMT.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belintersat-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.