Geostationary
NORAD ID: 37748
Int'l Code: 2011-035A
Perigee: 35,784.6 km
Apogee: 35,804.6 km
Inclination: 0.0 °
Period: 1,436.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 42165 km
Launch date: July 15, 2011
Source: United States (US)
Comments: Built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia, SES 3 is beginning a 15-year mission to deliver educational, international and high-definition programming across the United States and the Caribbean for SES World Skies. It's the second of three similar spacecraft launched for SES World Skies, following a Proton flight with SES 1 last year and the planned launch of SES 2 on an Ariane 5 rocket in August or September. SES 3 will replace the aging AMC 1 spacecraft launched on an Atlas 2A rocket in 1996. After a series of thruster firings to guide itself to its final orbital post, SES 3 will begin service from 103 degrees west longitude. The craft's communications payload includes 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders for traditional television broadcast programming and mobile data transmission, broadband Internet and private networks, according to SES World Skies.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 37748U 11035A 13346.00714391 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 6251
2 37748 000.0165 353.0278 0002369 245.0645 102.2613 01.00268657 8869
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for SES 3
