Mission History
Below is a listing of previous Astrotech Space Operations missions.
TEMPO - FM2 (and FM1) has twice the power and capacity of comparable satellites. However a solar flare in 1997 knocked out three of the spacecraft's transponders and damaged the solar array.
JCSAT-4 will relay voice, data, television signals via Ku-band to eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India. The same will be relayed to eastern and southern Asia and Hawaii via C-band.
INMARSAT 3 - F3 will provide broadcasting, business services and mobile communications to Pacific Ocean Region.
HOT BIRD 2 will be operated by EUTELSAT, the Paris-based consortium of 45 member nations and signatories, which is a leading provider of satellite-based communication and broadcast services to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
GE-1 is owned by GE Americom and is a continuation of the old RCA/GE Satcom series.
This seventh satellite in the UHF F/O Program incorporates extremely-high frequency (EHF) capability.
GALAXY - IX is dedicated to cable television transmission across the United States.
SAX (X-ray Astronomy Satellite) was developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in cooperation with the Dutch Space Agency (NIVR) to investigate celestial X-ray sources from inside and outside our galaxy. The satellite was built by Alenia Spazio.
The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) represents the first system demonstration in space of technology to identify and track ballistic missiles during their midcourse flight phase.
INMARSAT 3 - F1 provideS global mobile and remote area communications services on land, at sea and in the air. Inmarsat is an internationally owned cooperative headquartered in London, and it presently has 79 member nations.
PALAPA - C1 will provide C-band and Ku-band transmissions to an area centered on the Pacific Rim extending from Iran to Vladivostok and south to Sydney and New Zealand.
The mission of the Space Flyer Unit (SFU) was to verify the effectiveness of retrieval and reuse system by conducting launch, in-orbit experiments and retrieval, in addition to conduct scientific and engineering experiments and astronomical observations in orbit.
The purpose of the KOREASAT - 2 satellite was to provide broadcasting and telecommunications to South Korea.
GALAXY - 3R is used to provide video and telecommunications services throughout the United States. The satellite's Ku-band capacity can also be switched to provide coverage of Latin America.
EHF F6 is a communications satellite operated by the US military.
JCSAT-3 will relay voice, data, television signals via Ku-band to eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, India. The same will be relayed to eastern and southern Asia and Hawaii via C-band.
KOREASAT - 1 will provide TV coverage for South Korea and other Asian countries.
EHF F5 will provide additional protected communications for the US military.
GOES - J was an American weather satellite, which formed part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system.
MSAT is a satellite-based mobile telephony service developed by the National Research Council of Canada.
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