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The satellite carries 12 Ku-band and 12 C-band active transponders along with three antennas.
MEASAT-3a serves C-band markets throughout the region with a global beam, and Ku-band
beams serve direct-to-home broadcasting markets on Malaysia and Indonesia. The satellite is
located at an orbital slot at 91.5 degrees East Longitude over Southeast Asia and generates
approximately 3.6 kilowatts of payload power.
Spacecraft
Orbital GEO communications satellites are based on Orbital’s STAR™-2 spacecraft platform,
lightweight geosynchronous buses that provide high reliability, performance and capacity in a
relatively low-cost system. These platforms can accommodate up to 42 transponders, provide
up to 7.5 kilowatts of payload power and operate over a 15-year life – ideal for telephony, data
and broadcasting applications. STAR GEO satellites are smaller and less costly to build and
launch than those offered by the industry’s traditional suppliers.
Coverage:
Mission:
television broadcasting
Customer:
Lumpur, Malaysia
Specifications
Spacecraft
Solar Arrays: Three panels per array, UTJ Gallium Arsenide cells
Hybrid Payload
C-band
TWTA Power: 60 W RF
Antenna: 2.3 m dual gridded shaped deployable reflector; 1.2 m deck-mounted antenna
Ku-band
Launch
In March 2003, MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. of Malaysia ordered a Boeing 601HP
satellite, giving it the designation MEASAT-3 at that time. MEASAT-3 joined the existing Boeing-
built MEASAT-1 and MEASAT-2 spacecraft in the Malaysia-East Asia Satellite (MEASAT)
system.
International Launch Services (ILS) was contracted as the launch provider. Boeing was
specified to also provide an upgrade to the MEASAT ground facilities in Malaysia, as well as
training and launch support services.
The MEASAT-3 was launched on board an ILS service vehicle Proton M/Breeze M with a
'five-burn to orbit' sequence. It entered commercial service on January 25, 2007 at a
geostationary orbit of 91.5 degrees East (co-located with MEASAT-1). The C band and Ku band
now covers geographically remote areas such as Sabah, Sarawak, and North India and
expands the MEASAT fleet's coverage to more than 100 countries embracing Australia, Middle
East, Eastern Europe and Africa.
C BAND TRANSPONDERS
Transponder
24x36 MHz
bandwidth
Transponder
24x36 MHz
bandwidth
The mission objectives of the satellite are: advanced remote sensing and digital store and
forward communications. Other payloads include a digital data transfer experiment, positioning
using an on-board GPS receiver and a cosmic ray detection TiungSAT-1 uses Radio Amateur
Frequencies, thereby giving the Radio Amateur Society access to its Earth images and
communications capabilities. TiungSAT was launched on a DNEPR launch vehicle into a 650km
orbit in September 2000 under the auspices of the Russian Space Agency. The first images
from its Earth imaging cameras were obtained within just one week of launch.
Payloads
• Technology Demonstration
• Space Science
• Momentum Wheel
Wide Angle Camera (WAC)= 1200m GSD; Field of View 1200 x1200 km.
Narrow Angle Camera (NAC)= 3 cameras (R, G, B); 80 m GSD; FOV 80 x 80 km.
WAC and NAC= sensors Staring array, 1024 x 1024 pixel CCD.
CEDEX
Momentum Wheel
Physical
Mass= 50 kg
Power
Solar Panels= Four body mounted GaAs cell panels @36W each; Peak 50 W.
ADCS
Sensors= 2-axis analogue Sun sensors (x2), 3-axis magnetometers (x2), Earth underneath /
Sun overhead (UED/SOD) detector.
Pointing knowledge= ±1° roll & pitch (3s); ±3° yaw (3s).
Navigation
Processor= 80186 with 768 kB program memory and 14MB RAMDisk; 80386EX & 387 co-
processor, 4MB program memory, 128 MB RAM.
Distribution= One Data Sharing (DASH) Network and Two Control Area Networks.
Uplink =Three receivers at 9.6 kbps; Rx1 operates at 144.46 MHz Rx2 and Rx3 operate at
145.85, 145.925 selectable.
Downlink= Dual redundant. 2.5 to 10 W output power; 9.6, 38.4, 76.8 kbps selectable, 437.300,
437.325, 437.350, 437.375 MHz selectable.
Antennas= One per downlink antennas on +Z face; On +Z & -Z faces per uplink.
Razaksat
This satellite is Malaysia's second remote sensing satellite after TiungSAT-1. Originally called
MACSAT, RazakSAT's payload is mainly electro-optical, carrying a Medium-sized Aperture
Camera (MAC) which is a pushbroom camera with five linear detectors (one panchromatic, four
multi-spectral) weighing approximately 50 kg. The entire satellite weighs at about 180 kg.
Lounch
SpaceX launched RazakSAT at 03:35 UTC on July 14, 2009 using a Falcon 1 rocket. This
was the fifth flight of a Falcon 1, and like the previous flights lift-off was from Omelek Island in
the Kwajalein Atoll. At 05:25 UTC Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, told a reporter the
launch had been a success. "We nailed the orbit to well within target parameters...pretty much a
bullseye." Musk said.
Operations
RazakSAT's mission plan will be carried out by engineers from ATSB. Control operations will
be conducted through Malaysian National Space Agency 's Ground Station in Banting, Selangor
and ATSB's ground station in Shah Alam, Selangor consisting of a Mission Control Station
(MCS) and Image Receiving and Processing Station (IRPS). Another Malaysian ground station
which would be able to receive images from the satellite is the Remote Sensing Malaysia
groundstation in Temerloh, Pahang. The IRPS will receive and archive images for post
processing and distribution to the users.[citation needed]
This is especially important because Malaysia is usually covered by the equatorial cloud
bands. Normal sun-synchronous optical satellites, which may re-visit an area only once every
14 days, will almost never be able to see the ground during their pass. As a result, much optical
imagery of Malaysia is years out of date.[citation needed]
Razaksat, on the other hand, will revisit some part of Malaysian territory every 90 minutes,
maximising its ability to exploit gaps in the clouds, and substantially improving coverage of the
country as a result
SpecificationsSubsystems Specifications
Altitude 685 km
Inclination 9°
Payload (MAC) GSD : 2.5 m (PAN), 5 m (MS)
Swathwidth : 20 km @ 685 km
Attitude Determination & Control Three-axis stabilization based on four (reaction
Subsystem (ADCS) wheels)
Pointing Accuracy : < 0.2° (2 s)
Pointing Knowledge : 1 arcmin (2 s
Electrical Power Subsystem (EPS) GaAs/Ge solar cells on honeycomb substrate
NiCd batteries (18 Ahr)
Peak Power Tracking (PPT) & constant current control
Solar Power : >300 W @ EOL
Command & Data Handling Subsystem Two on-board computers
(C&DH) Telemetry and command interface modules
Analog Telemetry channels : up to 90
Digital Telemetry channels : up to 120
Telecommunication Subsystem (TS) 9,600 bit/s / 1,200 bit/s S-brand TT&C uplink
38.4 kbs / 9,600 bit/s / 1,200 bit/s S-brand TT&C
downlink
Payload Data Management 32 Gbit On-board solid-state memory
30 Mbit/s X band payload data downlink
Structure & Thermal Ø1,200 x 1,200 mm Hexagonal shape
Mass : 180 kg
Modular structure
Passive & Active thermal control
Mission Lifetime > 3 Years
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