A rocket Ariane 5 threw the night of Thursday, the 12th of June, from Kourou, in the French Guyana, these two telecommunications satellites, the civil Turk Turksat 3rd and the British military man Skynet 5C, and placed them in orbit of geostationary transference, announced Arianespace.

One Ariane 5 ECA, the most powerful version of the pitcher, detached from the Guianese spatial center to 19:05 places (22h05 GMT).

Both satellites were liberated successively approximately 30 m after the blast-off of the rocket.

Initially foreseen for May 23, the throwing was postponed one week for complementary cross-checks on the pitcher and after new postponed by an anomaly detected in the logicial of the pitcher.

Turksat 3rd, constructed by Thales Alenia Space, must replace to the satellite Turksat 1C (42nd East) and allow to the operator Turksat to give telecommunication services and spread television channels in a wider area (Turkey, Europe, Middle East, North Africa and central Asia). There were already six the months of retra satcescso on the initial pla sa satcesc tcesc nes for satcesc the sa satcesc tcesc nzamiento of the new sa satcesc télite Türksa satcesc t 3rd with a capacity of 24 tra satcescnspondedores in the sa satcesc tcesc band KU.

Tra satcescta of a piece of news sa satcesc télite it generates satcescción provided not only with a major capacity of tra satcescnspondedores but also of a top potency of which there goes to reempla sa satcesc tcesc czar, the old man Türksa satcesc t 1C, for what his coverage bundle satcesc will turn out to be significantly increased.

The sa satcesc tcesc orbital position of 42nd East is destined basically to the Turkish television market and a hard satcesc competition does not stop being for satcesc the digital sa satcesc tcesc pla sa satcesc tcesc taforma of payment, leader in Turkey as 7th East is Digitürk, given that this one expresses to tra satcescvés of another satcesc position, of the sa satcesc télite Eutelsa satcesc t W3A.



Trace of coverage of the satellite Türksat 3rd in the area West of Europe

For his part, the Skynet 5C, constructed by Astrium (group EADS), is the third satellite of the program Skynet 5 de telecomunicaciones seguras to the service of the British Department of Defense.

The next throwing of a rocket Ariane 5 will take place on July 4, with the satellite Badr 6 of Arabsat and the satellite ProtoStar 1 of ProtoStar.


(SatCesc, 13/06/08)