SES-10
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SES-10, is a geostationary communications satellite awarded in February 2014, owned and operated by SES and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space on the Eurostar-3000 satellite bus. It is positioned at the 67° West position thanks to an agreement with the Andean Community to use the Simón Bolivar-2 satellite network. It replaces AMC-3 and AMC-4 to provide enhanced coverage and significant capacity expansion.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- SES-10
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Simón Bolivar-2
- Spaceflight.image
- SES-10 Launch - world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket (33361035200).jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Falcon 9 Flight 32, a retrofitted orbital class rocket, launching SES-10.
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Communications
- Spaceflight.operator
- SES
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2017-017A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 42432
- Spaceflight.website
- https://www.ses.com/
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 15 years (planned) (elapsed)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- Eurostar
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- Eurostar-3000
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Spaceflight.power
- 13 kW
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 30 March 2017, 22:27:00 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A
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SES-10, is a geostationary communications satellite awarded in February 2014, owned and operated by SES and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space on the Eurostar-3000 satellite bus. It is positioned at the 67° West position thanks to an agreement with the Andean Community to use the Simón Bolivar-2 satellite network. It replaces AMC-3 and AMC-4 to provide enhanced coverage and significant capacity expansion.
The satellite has a pure Ku-band payload with 55 transponders offering direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting and enterprise and broadband connectivity. Its three wide beams cover Mexico and the Caribbean, Brazil, and Spanish-speaking South America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SES-10” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.