Thaicom 5 satellite successfully launched into orbit

NONTHABURI: - Shin Satellite Public Company Limited announced that its Thaicom 5 satellite was successfully launched into orbit Sunday morning.

The Ariane 5 ECA rocket, a heavy-duty version of the European Space Agency's (ESA), blasted off from the Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, in South America on Saturday and successfully placed Mexico's Satmex 6 and Thailand's Thaicom 5 into preliminary orbits.

Thaicom 5 was launched into orbit at 6.09pm Saturday local time (4.09 am Sunday Bangkok time), according to the company's statement.

To be located at an orbital position of 78.5 degrees East, the 2,760-kg. Thaicom 5 will use its payload of 14-ku band and 25 C-band transponders for Direct-to-Home television and Hig Definition TV and telecommunications coverage over Thailand, Southeast Asia, along with global coverage for Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The satellite will take 10 days to achieve its final geostationary orbit at 78.5 degrees East where it will be tested prior to the commencement of commercial use.

The 2.8-tonne Thaicom 5 built by Alcatel Alenia Space will replace an earlier satellite providing telecommunications and television services throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Shinsat executive Tanathit Charoenchan said earlier that Thaicom 5 would be able to provide service 15 days after the launch, and that the first major undertaking involves moving clients who are television broadcasters from Thaicom 3 to the new platform.

Shin Satellite Plc is a satellite and telecommunications operator with customers throughout Asia, Africa Europe and Australia.

Mr. Tanthit said the company currently operates four Thaicom satellites.

--TNA 2006-05-28

Thaicom 5 satellite successfully launched into orbit

NONTHABURI: - Shin Satellite Public Company Limited announced that its Thaicom 5 satellite was successfully launched into orbit Sunday morning.

The Ariane 5 ECA rocket, a heavy-duty version of the European Space Agency's (ESA), blasted off from the Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, in South America on Saturday and successfully placed Mexico's Satmex 6 and Thailand's Thaicom 5 into preliminary orbits.

Thaicom 5 was launched into orbit at 6.09pm Saturday local time (4.09 am Sunday Bangkok time), according to the company's statement.

To be located at an orbital position of 78.5 degrees East, the 2,760-kg. Thaicom 5 will use its payload of 14-ku band and 25 C-band transponders for Direct-to-Home television and Hig Definition TV and telecommunications coverage over Thailand, Southeast Asia, along with global coverage for Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The satellite will take 10 days to achieve its final geostationary orbit at 78.5 degrees East where it will be tested prior to the commencement of commercial use.

The 2.8-tonne Thaicom 5 built by Alcatel Alenia Space will replace an earlier satellite providing telecommunications and television services throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Shinsat executive Tanathit Charoenchan said earlier that Thaicom 5 would be able to provide service 15 days after the launch, and that the first major undertaking involves moving clients who are television broadcasters from Thaicom 3 to the new platform.

Shin Satellite Plc is a satellite and telecommunications operator with customers throughout Asia, Africa Europe and Australia.

Mr. Tanthit said the company currently operates four Thaicom satellites.

--TNA 2006-05-28

The Ariane 5 ECA launcher was developped by ESA (The European Space Agency) but is is operated by Arianespace a company which has launched 171 rockets and put into orbit more than 230 satellites (mostly Telecom satellites) for all the major telecom operators around the world..

www.arianespace.com

Launched today, but will it be sold next week!

That means that UBC will be moved to the new satellite, doesn't it? I wonder if that will solve the problem of loss of reception which occurs almost every time there's a decent rainstorm. I hope so.

wonder if that will solve the problem of loss of reception which occurs almost every time there's a decent rainstorm

Not unless they are increasing the power of the transponers,by about fourfold ( doubt it )

The reason for the outages everytime it rains is due to the high frequency that UBC uses.

The only practical thing you can do is get a bigger dish and lower noise LNB, even then the signal will still drop out under very heavy rain or cloud cover.

All those satellites and not a single watchable TV channel