The W2M will not be able to replace to the Eutelsat W2 in 16 ° East by an anomaly detected during the period of previous tests before being operative in the assigned orbital position

As a result, Eutelsat has decided that his satellite Eutelsat W2 should keep on remaining in the orbit of 16th East with the consequent damage, given that the due plans are truncated if it had come into operation the W2M.

Before this situació the satellite W3B, entrusted in February, 2008 it will be the one that once throws himself to the space 16th East substitutes late for the W2 in. His throwing is foreseen by the middle of 2010 or estarádotado from 27 to 56 transpondedoresde band Ku.

Eutelsat has initiated an investigació to determine the motive of the exact mistake that has provoked the loss of the W2M.

The Eutelsat W2M along with Hot Bird 9 they were thrown last December 20, 2008 from the spatial center of Kourou, in the French Guyana, by a rocket Ariane.

The satellite W2M, constructed by a consortium between EADS-Astrium and the Indian spatial agency (Isro), had to allow feeding of the networks of information and the television programs diffusion towards central and oriental Europe, in addition to towards the islands of the Indian Ocean with the development of up to 30 repeaters to give service to 400 chains of television.


(SatCesc, 29/01/09)