Communications
EUTELSAT 53A
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EUTELSAT 53A is a Russian Satellite Communications Company communications satellite, launched on October 21, 2014 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 21, 2014 at 03:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ekspress AM6
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,791 km
- Periapsis
- 35,783 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russian Satellite Communications Company
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,200 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,100 kg
- Power
- 14,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-064A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40277
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 22.5893 m²
- Status
- Operational