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Eutelsat 133 West A

Names

Eurobird 1 (2001–2012)
Eutelsat 28A (2012–2015)
Eutelsat 33C (2015–?)
Eutelsat 133 West A (?–)

Mission type

Communications

Operator

Eutelsat

COSPAR ID

2001-011A Edit this at Wikidata

SATCAT no.

26719

Mission duration

12 years

Spacecraft properties

Bus

Spacebus 3000B2

Manufacturer

Alcatel Space

Launch mass

2,950 kilograms (6,500 lb)

BOL mass

1,810 kilograms (3,990 lb)

Power

5,900 watts

Start of mission

Launch date

8 March 2001, 22:51 (2001-03-08UTC22:51Z) UTC[1]

Rocket

Ariane 5G V140

Launch site

Kourou ELA-3

Contractor

Arianespace

Orbital parameters

Reference system

Geocentric

Regime

Geostationary

Longitude

28.5° East (2001–2015)
33° East (2015–?)
133° West (?–)

Transponders

Bandwidth

12*33
12*72

TWTA power

90 watts

 

Eutelsat 133 West A (formerly Eurobird 1, Eutelsat 28A, and Eutelsat 33C) is a Eutelsat operated Eurobird satellite, used primarily for digital television. It was launched in March 2001, and after a short period testing at 33°E, joined Eutelsat 2F4 at 28.5°E in the Clarke Belt, just within the range of satellite dishes pointed at SES' Astra 2 satellites at 28.2° east. It moved to 33° east and joined Eutelsat 33B in July 2015. Then it was moved to 133° west.

Operations[edit]

The satellite has three beams. A fixed beam covers almost all of Europe as well as north-western Africa. There are also two steerable beams - the first, "S1", co-focused with the fixed beam but with a Europe-only footprint, and a second, "S2", aimed to central Europe. This beam features many transponders with low symbol rates, used for satellite news gathering.

It features 24 active transponders and 12 backup transponders, all Ku band. 12 of its transponders are significantly wider (72 MHz bandwidth) than traditional broadcast satellites, and are reconfigurable into multiple "virtual" transponders. Each transponder is fixed only in its polarity, and many are carrying at least two, and up to 6 virtual transponders.[2]

History[edit]

Once stationed at 28.5°E, the satellite was promoted as providing satellite coverage for all of Europe, and featured both analogue and digital television and radio services serving Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries. Many of the services it carried had previously been on Kopernikus 2 which had operated at 28.5°E since 1990. These stations slowly started to leave, mostly due to viewers/listeners in those target audiences moving to more traditional orbital positions - 19.2°E for Austria, and the relatively new 23.5°E for Czechia and Slovakia.

On 1 March 2012 Eutelsat renamed Eurobird 1 to Eutelsat 28A.[3]

In August 2012 it was confirmed that, after some loss of power events on Eutelsat 28A, Eutelsat 48B would be redeployed to the orbital position of 28.5 degrees East to ensure continuity of service.[4]

In January 2014 SES and Eutelsat agreed that SES would run the whole spectrum at the 28.5°E slot. Eutelsat leases eight transponders and commercializes 12 transponders from the Astra 2 fleet.[5] The last active Eutelsat 28A transponders transferred to Astra 2E on 29 June 2015.[6] It has been redeployed at 33° east[7] and renamed into Eutelsat 33C on 3 July 2015.[8] It was redeployed at 133° west[9] and renamed Eutelsat 133 West A.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The fleet - Eutelsat 28A". Eutelsat. Archived from the original on 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  • ^ Eutelsat 28A at 28.2°E Archived 2014-02-25 at the Wayback Machine IMS. Accessed July 3, 2015
  • ^ Eutelsat renames fleet Advanced Television. December 1, 2011
  • ^ "Eutelsat redeploy satellite to secure UK satellite TV coverage". a516digital. 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  • ^ Settlement in SES-Eutelsat 28 degree dispute Broadband TV News. January 30, 2014. Accessed June 30, 2015
  • ^ Freesat EPG and last few channels transfer from Eutelsat 28A to new Astra 2 satellites Sat and PC Guy blog. June 29, 2015. Accessed June 29, 2015
  • ^ The fleet - EUTELSAT 33C satellite Eutelsat.com. Accessed July 21, 2015
  • ^ Eutelsat Twitter @Eutelsat_SA. Accessed July 3, 2015
  • ^ EUTELSAT 133 West A | Eutelsat Satellites | Eutelsat Eutelsat.com. Accessed February 12, 2021
  • Eutelsat satellites

    Post-2012 designations

    East

  • 7A
  • 7B
  • 9B
  • 10A
  • 16A
  • 16C
  • 21B
  • 25B
  • 31A
  • 33B
  • 33C
  • 33E
  • 36A
  • 36B
  • 36C
  • 48A
  • 48D
  • 70B
  • 70C
  • 172A
  • 172B
  • West

  • 5WB
  • 7WA
  • 8WB
  • 12WB
  • 36WA
  • 65WA
  • 113WA
  • 115WB
  • 117WA
  • 117WB
  • Hot Bird

  • 13C
  • 13E
  • 13F
  • 13G
  • Other

  • SESAT-2
  • Telstar 12
  • Pre-2012 designations

    Main brand

    Eutelsat I

  • ECS-2
  • ECS-3
  • ECS-4
  • ECS-5
  • Eutelsat II

  • F-2
  • F-3
  • F-4
  • F-5
  • W series

  • W2
  • W2A
  • W2M
  • W3
  • W3A
  • W3B
  • W3C
  • W3D
  • W4
  • W5
  • W5A
  • W6
  • W6A
  • W7
  • W48
  • W75
  • Hot Bird

  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 7A
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • Atlantic Bird

  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 4A
  • 7
  • Eurobird

  • 2
  • 2A
  • 3
  • 4
  • 4A
  • 9
  • 9A
  • 10
  • 16
  • Other

  • Eutelsat 3A
  • Eutelsat 3B
  • Eutelsat 3C
  • KA-SAT
  • SESAT-1
  • SESAT-2
  • Telstar 12
  • Orbital launches in 2001

    2002 →

    January ,

  • Türksat 2A
  • Progress M1-5
  • USA-156
  • February ,

  • STS-98 (Destiny)
  • Odin
  • Progress M-44
  • USA-157
  • March ,

  • Eurobird 1, BSAT-2a
  • XM-2
  • April ,

  • 2001 Mars Odyssey
  • GSAT-1
  • STS-100 (Raffaello MPLM)
  • Soyuz TM-32
  • May ,

  • PAS-10
  • USA-158
  • Progress M1-6
  • Kosmos 2377
  • June ,

  • Intelsat 901
  • Astra 2C
  • ICO F2
  • MAP
  • July ,

  • Artemis, BSAT-2b
  • Molniya-3K No.11
  • GOES 12
  • Koronas-F
  • August ,

  • Genesis
  • STS-105 (Leonardo MPLM, Simplesat)
  • Progress M-45
  • Kosmos 2379
  • VEP-2, LRE
  • Intelsat 902
  • September ,

  • Progress M-SO1 (Pirs)
  • OrbView-4, QuickTOMS, SBD, Odyssey
  • Atlantic Bird 2
  • Starshine 3, PICOSat, PCSat, SAPPHIRE
  • October ,

  • Globus No.14L
  • USA-162
  • QuickBird-2
  • Soyuz TM-33
  • TES, PROBA, BIRD
  • Molniya-3 No.64
  • November ,

  • DirecTV-4S
  • December ,

  • STS-108 (Raffaello MPLM, Starshine 2
  • Jason-1, TIMED
  • Meteor-3M #1, Kompass, Badr-B, Maroc-Tubsat, Reflektor
  • Kosmos 2383
  • Kosmos 2384, Kosmos 2385, Kosmos 2386, Gonets-D1 No.10, Gonets-D1 No.11, Gonets-D1 No.12
  • Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
    Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).


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