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A REPORT ON ASIASAT
COMPILED BY
BABATUNDE TOLUWALASE
12/67EC/313
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
OUTLINE
SATELLITE OVERVIEW
ASIASAT OVERVIEW
CONCLUSION
IMAGE OF A SATELLITE
SATELLITE OVERVIEW
SATELLITE
TYPES OF SATELLITES
The common types of satellites include;
communication satellites
navigation satellites,
research satellites.
BENEFITS OF SATELLITES
When satellites reach the end of their mission, satellites operators have
the option of deorbiting the satellites, leaving the satellites to a
graveyard orbit.
Asia sat is based in Hong Kong with two major shareholders, CITIC
having 34.8 percent and Carlyle Asia partners IV, L.P with 34.1 percent.
It was founded in 1988 and has a total of 10 Asia sat satellites, both
launched and planned for future.
SATELLITE FLEETS
Asia satellite provides access to over two third of the worlds population.
To better meet increasing client demand for quality satellite capacity
and services, they are in the process of expanding the fleet with am
additional satellite scheduled to launch in 2017.
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ASIASAT 1
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ASIASAT 2
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ASIASAT 3
The mission of the satellite was planned for 15 years but was
operational for 4 years, it was decommissioned july 2002
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ASAISAT 4 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 4
Asiasat 4 was lauched 11 april 2003 covering Asia, Middle East Cis And
Australasia. It has 28 numbers of transponders ( linearized ),36mhz
bandwidth, twta size 55 watts in CU-BAND.
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ASIASAT 5 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 5
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ASIASAT 5 CONTD
C-BAND
KU-BAND
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ASIASAT 6 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 6
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ASAISAT 6 CONTD
C-BAND
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ASIASAT 7 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 7
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ASAISAT 7 CONTD
C-BAND
KU-BAND
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ASIASAT 8 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 8
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ASIASAT 8 CONTD
KU-BAND
KA-BAND
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ASAISAT 9 IMAGE
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ASIASAT 9
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ASIASAT 9 CONTD
C-BAND
KU-BAND
No. of Transponders: 32
(linearised)
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CONCLUSION
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