COMSATBw-1

Spacecraft n°:

German spacecraft n°: 61

Launch data: Designation  35943 / 09054B Launch date  01 Oct 2009 - 21:59 UT Launch site  Ko, ELA-3 Launch vehicle  Ariane-5ECA Mission  Military: Communications Geostationary orbit: Perigee / Apogee  35773 x 35799 km Eccentricity  3.08E-04 Inclination  0.05 deg Period  1436.1 min

Mission details:

• Germany's first military communications satellite.
• COMSATBw-1 (formerly known as SATCOMBw-1) is a Thales Alenia/Cannes Spacebus 3000B2 satellite for German military communications. (Prime contractor for the space segment is EADS Astrium but Thales built the satellite.) The project is managed by IT-AMTBw (Bundesamt fur Informationsmanagement und informationstechnik der Bundeswehr), the federal bureau for information technology of the German armed forces (Bundeswehr).
• It is also known as GMS-2A (possibly for German Military Satellite?)
  The satellites entered a 265 x 35801 km x 2.9 deg transfer orbit.