ARSAT-1
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ARSAT-1 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by AR-SAT and built by the Argentine company INVAP. ARSAT-1 was launched into orbit on October 16, 2014, from French Guiana alongside Intelsat-30 satellite using an Ariane 5 rocket. It is expected to be located at 72° West longitude geostationary slot. ARSAT-1 is the first geostationary satellite built in Latin America. Total cost of the satellite is 270 million US dollars.
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It is catalogued under topics including 2014 in Argentina, Communications satellites in geostationary orbit and Satellites of Argentina.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Described at
Arsat 1 at 71.8°W - LyngSat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- communications satellite
- Country
- Argentina
- Operator
- ARSAT
- Manufacturer
- INVAP
- Image
- ARSAT-1 En INVAP.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2014-10-16
- start point
- ELA-3
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
- described at URL
- www.lyngsat.com/Arsat-1.html
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ARSAT-1 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by AR-SAT and built by the Argentine company INVAP. ARSAT-1 was launched into orbit on October 16, 2014, from French Guiana alongside Intelsat-30 satellite using an Ariane 5 rocket. It is expected to be located at 72° West longitude geostationary slot. ARSAT-1 is the first geostationary satellite built in Latin America. Total cost of the satellite is 270 million US dollars.
ARSAT-1 carries a total of 24 IEEE Ku band (NATO J-band) transponders. Twelve will be operating at 36 MHz, eight at 54 MHz and four at 72 MHz, for a total bandwidth of 1152 MHz. It will offer a wide range of telecommunications, data transmission, telephone and television services mainly across all of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay including direct broadcast TV in the ISDB-S standard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ARSAT-1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.