Garuda 1

Also called: ACES 1

Launch data:

Main transponders	88
Backup transponders	22
Power	SSPAs
Bandwidth
Coverage	22 countries: from Guam to Papua New Guinea in the east to Pakistan in the west, and from Japan in the north to Indonesia in the south 12 beams
Polarization

2 antennas each 12 m diameter (built by Harris Aerospace (US))
L-band; mobile telephone communications.

The Proton returned to flight on Feb 12 with the launch of the Garuda 1 communications satellite for the ACES consortium which involves PSN of Indonesia, PLDT of the Phillipines, Lockheed Martin, and the Thai company Jasmine. The satellite is a Lockheed Martin A2100AXX and has two large 12-m diameter L-band antennas for cellphone relay. The Proton placed Garuda and the Blok DM3 on a suborbital trajectory. The first DM burn put the stack in a 200 km orbit; burn 2 was to geostationary transfer orbit and burn 3 raised the orbit to 6233 x 35946 km x 16 deg.
The 2 antennas were sucessfully deployed. One antenna has an anomaly which reduces the maximum calling capacity.
11000 simultaneous telephone communications. launch cost: $70 million

Ref: #7(JR421,615), #15, #206, #226 - update: 11.01.11