AsiaSat 5 is equipped with the latest technology and new beam coverage to provide highest quality television broadcast, telephone networks, and VSAT networks for broadband multimedia services across Asia Pacific. In addition to a very powerful pan-Asian C-band footprint and the improved Ku-band East Asia beam, AsiaSat 5’s new Ku-band South Asia and in-orbit steerable beams are designed to serve new market requirements and to offer full backup capability in network coverage with AsiaSat’s existing satellites AsiaSat 3S and AsiaSat 4. AsiaSat 5 will replace AsiaSat 2. The Proton launch vehicle, using a 4-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 and the first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent profile to place the Orbital Unit (Breeze M upper stage and AsiaSat 5) into a sub-orbital trajectory. From this point in the mission, the Breeze M will perform planned mission maneuvers to advance the Orbital Unit first to a circular parking orbit, then to an intermediate orbit, followed by a transfer orbit and finally to a geo-transfer orbit. Separation of the AsiaSat 5 satellite is scheduled to occur approximately 9 hours, 15 minutes after liftoff.
Satnews Daily
August 4th, 2009
AsiaSat 5 To Head For 100.5 Degrees East Aboard ILS Proton Breeze M On August 12th
An ILS Proton will be launching AsiaSat-5, according to a new contract signed between International Launch Services and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company.
Manufactured by SS/L using their 1300 spacecraft bus, and with a separated spacecraft mass of approximately 3,760 kg, the selected launch vehicle is a Khrunichev manufactured Proton Breeze M. The launch is scheduled to occur at Baikonur on August 12th, at 01:47:33 local time and 15:47:33 EDT, from Launch Pad 39. With a design life of 15 years, the satellite will pack 14 Ku- and 26 C-band transponders and has the orbital slot of 100.5 degrees East.
AsiaSat 5 is equipped with the latest technology and new beam coverage to provide highest quality television broadcast, telephone networks, and VSAT networks for broadband multimedia services across Asia Pacific. In addition to a very powerful pan-Asian C-band footprint and the improved Ku-band East Asia beam, AsiaSat 5’s new Ku-band South Asia and in-orbit steerable beams are designed to serve new market requirements and to offer full backup capability in network coverage with AsiaSat’s existing satellites AsiaSat 3S and AsiaSat 4. AsiaSat 5 will replace AsiaSat 2. The Proton launch vehicle, using a 4-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 and the first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent profile to place the Orbital Unit (Breeze M upper stage and AsiaSat 5) into a sub-orbital trajectory. From this point in the mission, the Breeze M will perform planned mission maneuvers to advance the Orbital Unit first to a circular parking orbit, then to an intermediate orbit, followed by a transfer orbit and finally to a geo-transfer orbit. Separation of the AsiaSat 5 satellite is scheduled to occur approximately 9 hours, 15 minutes after liftoff.
AsiaSat 5 is equipped with the latest technology and new beam coverage to provide highest quality television broadcast, telephone networks, and VSAT networks for broadband multimedia services across Asia Pacific. In addition to a very powerful pan-Asian C-band footprint and the improved Ku-band East Asia beam, AsiaSat 5’s new Ku-band South Asia and in-orbit steerable beams are designed to serve new market requirements and to offer full backup capability in network coverage with AsiaSat’s existing satellites AsiaSat 3S and AsiaSat 4. AsiaSat 5 will replace AsiaSat 2. The Proton launch vehicle, using a 4-burn Breeze M mission design, will lift off from Pad 39 and the first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent profile to place the Orbital Unit (Breeze M upper stage and AsiaSat 5) into a sub-orbital trajectory. From this point in the mission, the Breeze M will perform planned mission maneuvers to advance the Orbital Unit first to a circular parking orbit, then to an intermediate orbit, followed by a transfer orbit and finally to a geo-transfer orbit. Separation of the AsiaSat 5 satellite is scheduled to occur approximately 9 hours, 15 minutes after liftoff.