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Ariane
4 Successfully Launches Intelsat 905
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An Ariane 44L
successfully launched Intelsat 905 from Kourou, pad ELA 2, at 0644
UTC on June 5. Intelsat 905 will be located at 24.5°W. Intelsat
603 is currently positioned at the 24.5°W orbital slot, but will
be moved to 178°E  to
establish a new satellite role at that location. The satellite is
expected to be operational by July 18. Intelsat 905 is the fifth
spacecraft launched in a nine-satellite campaign to replace and
significantly add to existing capacity by the end of 2003.
Provisional parameters at third stage injection were:
Perigee: 200.1 km for a target of 199.8 km (+/- 3 km);
Apogee: 35,964 km for a target of 35,943 km (+/- 150 km); Inclination: 6.98
degrees for a target of 7.00 degrees (+/- 0.06 degrees).
Intelsat 905 will
offer capacity for telephony, corporate networks, Internet, video
and hybrid space/terrestrial solutions to customers using its 72
C-band and 22 Ku-band transponders (measured in 36 MHz equivalent
units). The satellite will provide high power Ku-band spot beam
coverage for Western Europe and much of North America and
additional C-band capacity to customers in Europe, the Middle
East, Africa, North America and South America.
 The
4723 kg (10,409 lbm) spacecraft was built by Space Systems / Loral
using the LS 1300 Extended bus. It will provide 8.600 kW of power
at beginning of life, with an expected design life of 13 years.
Intelsat's
next launch, the Intelsat 906 satellite, is scheduled during the
third quarter of this year aboard an Ariane 44L launch vehicle.
Only three Ariane 4 rockets remain in the Arianespace inventory.
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