New Satellite SES 9

[jayanji]

Speaking in Paris April 10 during the Space Access conference organized by Astech Paris Region, Olivier Lebrethon, SES manager for new launch risks, said SES-9, built by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems of El Segundo, Calif., will use both electric and chemical propellant to make its way from its rocket drop-off point to final geostationary position.

Conventional satellites take no more than two weeks to make the journey to final geostationary position 36,000 kilometers over the equator. For comparison, the two all-electric Boeing-built satellites take six months or longer to reach their final operating positions.

It's scheduled for first half of 2015 & will be operational at the end of year

 

[shawl_who]

so, SES9 will take 6 months to reach its destination :skd
half their fuel might get depleted in traveling :rofl.

 

[jayanji]

“The use of electrical propulsion is really only a matter of fleet management,” Lebrethon said. “You design in to your program the extra time needed to reach final position, so in the case of SES-9 we started three months earlier.”

 

[pallab999]

any update?

 

[sas123]

any update?

@Off Topic! Is Videocon D2H in space crunch?? Which will be the future satellite for D2H??:huh

 

[Harry.S]

Shawl bro plz update about this setelite??