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Galaxy 3C

Communications satellite

Galaxy 3C
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Communications
Operator	PanAmSat / Intelsat
COSPAR ID	2002-030A
SATCAT no.	27445
Mission duration	15 years (planned) 21 years, 10 months, 10 days (in progress)


Bus	BSS-702
Manufacturer	Boeing Satellite Systems
Launch mass	4,860 kilograms (10,710 lb)
Dry mass	2,873 kilograms (6,334 lb)
Power	15 kW


Start of mission
Launch date	15 June 2002, 22:39:30 (2002-06-15UTC22:39:30Z) UTC
Rocket	Zenit-3SL
Launch site	Sea Launch


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	95° west^[1]


Transponders
Band	24 C-band 16 Ku-band
Coverage area	North America, Canada, United States & Mexico

Galaxy 3C (or Galaxy 13) is a communications satellite operated by PanAmSat from 2000 to 2006, and by Intelsat from 2006 to today. It spent most of its operational life at an orbital location of 95° W. Galaxy 3C was launched on June 15, 2002, with a Зенит 3SL Zenit launch vehicle, from 154°w, 00°s, and covered North America & S. America (optional) with twenty-four transponders each on the C- and sixteen in K_u band.

References

^ SatBeams. "Galaxy 3C (G-3C)". Retrieved May 7, 2018.

External links

www.lyngsat.com/g3c.html
www.panamsat.com/global_network/galaxy_3c.asp

0°N 95°W / 0°N 95°W / 0; -95

Intelsat Corporation

COMSAT
Intelsat Americas
PanAmSat
ITSO
STS-49
List of Intelsat satellites

Intelsat I, II, III

Intelsat IV

Intelsat V

Intelsat VI

Intelsat 7-10

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

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
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