Arabsat 6Btelecommunication satellite was successfully launched by Arianespace form Kourou, in French Guyana, with an Ariane 5 rocket.This new satellite Arabsat 6B, the first in Arabsat?s 6thgeneration of satellites, willbe co-located with Arabsat satellites at the 26? East video hot spot known as BADR. It will extend in-orbit Arabsat?s capacity at this location for direct-to-home television broadcast and telecommunications services, and will provide broadband services in Ka-band with spot beam coverage. This new multi-mission satellite will deliver broadcast, broadband and telecommunications services over MENA,Africa and Central Asia. Arabsat 6B will be renamed BADR-7 as soon as reachingits operational orbit.Arabsat 6B is able to operate up to 24 transponders in Ku-band as well as a powerfull capacity in Ka FSS band including 24 Ka spot-beams as well as Ka transponders for additional services. Four deployable antennas and three fixedantennas will address service regions over a large coverage that includes the whole of MENA, South and North-West Africa and Central Asia.The footprint resembles that one ofEutelsat 25B / Es'hail-1 @ 25.5? East...giving us a challenge when it starts beaming....so the BUDs have their work cut to be swung from 7E
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
