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Intelsat 903

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Intelsat 903
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Communications
Operator	Intelsat^[1]^[2]
COSPAR ID	2002-016A^[1]
SATCAT no.	27403^[1]
Mission duration	13 years^[1]


Spacecraft type	SSL-1300HL^[1]
Manufacturer	Space Systems/Loral^[1]
Launch mass	4,723.0 kg (10,412.4 lb)^[1]
Dry mass	1,972.0 kg (4,347.5 lb)^[1]
Power	8.6 kW


Start of mission
Launch date	March 30, 2002, 17:25 (2002-03-30UTC17:25Z) UTC^[3]
Rocket	Proton-K Blok-DM3^[2]
Launch site	Baikonur 81/23^[2]


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	34.5° west^[1]
Semi-major axis	42,164.0 kilometres (26,199.5 mi)^[4]
Eccentricity	0.0003243^[5]
Perigee altitude	35,780.2 kilometres (22,232.8 mi)^[4]
Apogee altitude	35,807.6 kilometres (22,249.8 mi)^[4]
Inclination	0.0122°^[4]
Period	1,436.1 minutes^[4]
RAAN	301.1223°^[5]
Epoch	May 19, 2017^[4]
Revolution no.	1241^[5]


Transponders
Band	44 C band and 12 K_u band
Bandwidth	36 MHz and 72 MHz
Coverage area	Africa, America, Europe, Middle East
EIRP	36 dBW (C Band) 53 dBW (K_u band Europe) and 52 dBW (K_u band America)

Intelsat 9 ← Intelsat 902 Intelsat 904 →

Intelsat 903 (orIS-903^[1]) is a communications satellite operated by Intelsat.

Launch[edit]

Intelsat 903 was launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 22:27 UTC on March 30, 2002.^[6]

Capacity and coverage[edit]

The 4.7 tonne (with fuel) spacecraft carries 23 C-band transponders (and several in Ku-band) to provide direct-to-home television and internet service to Europe and North America after parking over 34.5 degrees west longitude.^[6]

External links[edit]

www.intelsat.com. Intelsat

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Intelsat 903 (IS-903)". SatBeams – Satellite Details. Retrieved May 19, 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c Krebs, Gunter. "Intelsat 9 (901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved May 19, 2017.

^ McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved May 19, 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "INTELSAT 903". N2YO. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c Peat, Chris. "Intelsat 903". Heavens Above. Retrieved May 19, 2017.

^ ^a ^b "Intelsat 903". NSSDC Master Catalog. Retrieved May 19, 2017.

v t e ← 2001 Orbital launches in 2002 2003 →
January	USA-164 INSAT-3C
February	Tsubasa, DASH, VEP-3 HESSI Iridium 90, Iridium 91, Iridium 94, Iridium 95, Iridium 96 EchoStar VII Intelsat 904 Kosmos 2387
March	Envisat STS-109 TDRS-9 GRACE Progress M1-8 Shenzhou 3 JCSAT-8, Astra 3A Intelsat 903
April	Kosmos 2388 STS-110 (ITS S0) NSS-7 Soyuz TM-34
May	SPOT-5, Idefix Aqua DirecTV-5 Feng Yun 1D, Hai Yang 1A Ofek-5 Kosmos 2389
June	Intelsat 905 STS-111 (Leonardo MPLM) Ekspress A1R Galaxy 3C Iridium 97, Iridium 98 NOAA-17 Progress M-46
July	CONTOUR Stellat 5, N-STAR c Kosmos 2390, Kosmos 2391 Kosmos 2392
August	Hot Bird 6 EchoStar VIII Atlantic Bird 1, MSG-1
September	Intelsat 906 USERS, Kodama METSAT Tsinghua 2 Hispasat 1D Progress M1-9 Nadezhda 7
October	STS-112 (ITS S1) Foton-M No.1 INTEGRAL Zi Yuan 2B Soyuz TMA-1
November	STS-113 (ITS P1, MEPSI 1A, MEPSI 1B) Astra 1K AlSAT-1, Mozhayets 3, Rubin-3
December	TDRS-10 Hot Bird 7, Stentor, MFD-A, MFD-B ADEOS II, Kanta Kun, FedSat, µ-LabSat 1 (RITE 1, RITE 2) NSS-6 TrailBlazer-2001 STA, Saudisat 1C, LatinSat A, LatinSat B, UniSat 2, Rubin 2 Kosmos 2393 Kosmos 2394, Kosmos 2395, Kosmos 2396 Shenzhou 4 Nimiq 2
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).

v t e Intelsat Corporation
COMSAT Intelsat Americas PanAmSat ITSO STS-49 List of Intelsat satellites
Intelsat I, II, III	Intelsat I Intelsat II F-1 II F-2 II F-3 II F-4 Intelsat III F-1 III F-2 III F-3 III F-4 III F-5 III F-6 III F-7 III F-8
Intelsat IV	Intelsat IV F-1 IV F-2 IV F-3 IV F-4 IV F-5 IV F-6 IV F-7 IV F-8 IVA F-1 IVA F-2 IVA F-3 IVA F-4 IVA F-5 IVA F-6
Intelsat V	Intelsat V F-1 V F-2 V F-3 V F-4 V F-5 V F-6 V F-7 V F-8 V F-9† VA F-10 VA F-11 VA F-12 VA F-13 VA F-14 VA F-15
Intelsat VI	Intelsat 601 602 603 604 605
Intelsat 7-10	Intelsat 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 801 802 803 804 805 806 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 10-02
ex-PanAmSat	Intelsat 1R 2 3R 4 5 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12
Recent Intelsat	Intelsat 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (New Dawn) 29e 30 31 32e 33e 34 35e 36 37e 38 39 40e
Galaxy (Intelsat Americas)	Galaxy 3C 4R 5 9 10R 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 23 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
Other	APR-1 APR-2 Horizons-1 Horizons-2 Horizons-3e Intelsat K Marisat-F2 SBS 6

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