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Detailed information about ITALSAT 2 satellite

Designator id: 1996-044A

Description of ITALSAT 2 Satellite:

Italy's second national communications satellite, ITALSAT 2 was dual launched aboard an Ariane 44L booster from Kourou, French Guiana. Placed in geosynchronous orbit above 13.2 deg. e, the satellite served as a spaceborne telephone switchboard, redirecting up to 12,000 calls at once. ITALSAT was experimental in nature, a pre-operational component of a proposed digital satellite network for Italy. Built by Selenia Spazio for Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (the Italian Space Agency), ITALSAT 2 was box-shaped, measuring 2.72 by 2.22 by 3.48 m. It was 6.1 m tall with its two 2-m reflector antennas deployed. Solar arrays spanned 21 m and provided 1,600 W of power. Its communications package housed six 20/30 GHz multibeam transponders, three 20/30 GHz global beam transponders and a propagation experiment operating at 40/50 GHz. The multibeam system, using advanced time division multiple access (TDMA) techniques, was expected to undergo two years of testing; the global beam system was considered operational from the start and was used to test new services. ITALSAT 2 had a 5-year design life.


Technical data:

Launch Date: 1996-08-08
Launch Vehicle: Ariane 44L
Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Mass: 2000.0 kg

Funding Agencies:

Unknown (Italy)

Disciplines:

Communications

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 24208U 96044A   12337.45800235  .00000081  00000-0  10000-3 0  8882
2 24208 009.3448 050.8886 0025715 015.5904 344.4095 01.00777455 59813

Last TLE update on :2012-12-03

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