TerreStar 1

Launch data: Designation  35496 / 09035A Launch date  01 Jul 2009 - 17:52 UT Launch site  Ko, ELA-3 Launch vehicle  Ariane-5ECA Mission  Commercial: Communications Geostationary orbit on Jul 08.71: Perigee / Apogee  35707 x 35868 km Eccentricity  9.49E-05 Inclination  5.94 deg Period  1436.13 min

Mission details:

• TerreStar 1 is a new generation telecommunications satellite to be used for mobile services, launched for TerreStar Network and using a Space Systems/Loral FS-1300-Omega platform. Body of the satellite is a box, 2.8 x 3.6 x 7.6 metres, with two vanes of six-segment solar panels which span 32.44 metres: each vane is in the shape of a “t”.
• The second launch of a Loral 1300 satellite in two days was the most massive communications satellite to date, the 6910 kg Terrestar 1, which carries an 18-meter deployable antenna for S-band mobile communications. Ariane 5ECA vehicle 547 reached an initial -1159 x 176 km x 11.8 deg trajectory and then a 235 x 35901 km x 6.0 deg transfer orbit.
• Provide mobile voice and data communications in North America to smartphone-size handsets.