Spacenet buses series#

Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 105 deg W in 1986-1992 125 deg W in 1992-1997 As of 5 September 2001 located at 148.11 deg W drifting at 1.728 deg W per day. Third stage igniter cartridge failure was determined to be the most likely As of 2007 Mar 10 located at 119.21W drifting at 0.126W degrees per day.įAILURE: Geosynchronous orbit injection failure. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 128 deg W in 1985-1994 As of 5 September 2001 located at 99.97 deg W drifting at 0.156 deg W per day. Released by STS 51I 8/27/85 stationed at 81 deg E. Spacecraft Bus: AS 3000.Ĭompleted Operations Date. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 105.07W drifting at 0.006W degrees per day. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 103 deg W in 1985-1996 105 deg W in 1997-1999 As of 5 September 2001 located at 105.33 deg W drifting at 0.011 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 64.76W drifting at 1.866W degrees per day.Ĭompleted Operations Date. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 69 deg W in 1984-1997 115 deg E in 1997-1998 As of 5 September 2001 located at 65.20 deg E drifting at 1.887 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 10 located at 109.23W drifting at 1.077W degrees per day.Ĭompleted Operations Date. As of 2 September 2001 located at 165.12 deg E drifting at 0.985 deg W per day. Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 120 deg W in 1984-1993 115 deg E in 1993-on. In March 1991, General Telephone and Electronics (GTE) in turn merged with Contel and acquired its satellites. (Contel) before the first one was launched, and became Contel ASC. This company was bought by Continental Telecommunications Inc. The ASC satellites were initiated by American Satellite Corp. The Spacenet satellites were built by Southern Pacific Communications (SPC), which was bought by GTE before the first Spacenet ever launched.

Spacenet buses series#

Through a series of purchases and mergers, General Telephone and Electronics (GTE) ended up with a consolidated constellation of geosynchronous communications satellites originally launched by itself and two other entities.