Loral Wins Contract to Build MTSAT 1R

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Loral Wins Contract to Build MTSAT 1R

Loral Space & Communications has won a contract to build MTSAT-1R, an advanced multi-functional satellite for air traffic control and weather observation, for Japan's Ministry of Transport. The MTSAT-1R satellite is to be delivered in 2002 to provide digital voice and data communications, navigational services for aircraft, and also gather weather data for users throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The satellite will be positioned at 140°E, using the L, Ku, and Ka bands. MTSAT 1R will replace the US$95 million MTSAT 1 satellite lost November 15, 1999 when the H2 rocket launching it failed. Loral, in January 1998, won the contract to build the original 2,900 kg (6,380 lbm) MTSAT satellite.

MTSAT-1R will be a version of Space System/Loral's three-axis, body-stabilized F-1300 bus. The new spacecraft will provide 10 years of service in its aeronautical mission and five years in its meteorological mission. The launch vehicle has not been selected.

Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau will use MTSAT-1R to increase the efficiency of aircraft flight routes, provide flexible flight profile planning, enhance air travel safety, and improve the quality of aeronautical communications. MTSAT-1R, will be the successor to the Himawari (GMS) satellite series. The Japanese Meteorological Agency will use MTSAT-1R to deliver observation data to a processing station and provide cloud imagery and continuous weather data from the Asia-Pacific region, such as cloud and vapor distributions, cloud-motion wind vector, sea surface temperature, and information on typhoon, low pressure, and frontal activity.

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March 23, 2000

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