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Designator id: 2008-063A

Description of CIEL-2 Satellite:

Ciel 2 is a geosynchronous communications satellite (owned by the Ciel Satellite Group) that will be used for digital TV services. Ciel 2 has 32 Ku-band transponders and is based on a Spacebus 4000 C4 model built by Thales Alenia Space. The satellite was launched on a Proton-M rocket with a Breeze M upper stage from Baikonur at 13:43 UT on 10 December 2008. From its orbital position at 129° W longitude, the spacecraft will serve the Canadian and the larger North American market.

Technical data:
Launch Date: 2008-12-10
Launch Vehicle: Proton-M
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan

Funding Agencies:
Unknown (Canada)

Disciplines:
Communications

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):

1 33453U 08063A   12337.68309905  .00000067  00000-0  10000-3 0  7468
2 33453 000.0159 014.6455 0003465 243.7689 290.5924 01.00273524 14591

Last TLE update on :2012-12-03

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