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Nilesat 101

Nilesat 101
Mission type Communications
Operator Nilesat
COSPAR ID 1998-024A
SATCAT no. 25311
Mission duration 18 years
Spacecraft properties
Bus Eurostar-2000
Manufacturer Matra Marconi
Launch mass 1,666 kilograms (3,673 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date 28 April 1998, 22:53 (1998-04-28UTC22:53Z) UTC
Rocket Ariane 44P
Launch site Kourou ELA-2
Contractor Arianespace
End of mission
Disposal Decommissioned
Deactivated February 2013 (2013-03)
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Geostationary
Longitude 7° west
Perigee 36,512 kilometres (22,688 mi)
Apogee 36,725 kilometres (22,820 mi)
Inclination 0.73 degrees
Period 24.64 hours
Epoch 29 October 2013, 10:24:24 UTC
Transponders
Band 12 Ku-band

Nilesat 101 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was decommissioned in February 2013.

Nilesat 101 was launched by an Ariane 4 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on 28 April 1998 at 22:53:00 UTC by Arianespace. The satellite is powered by solar arrays, and the power is stored aboard batteries.

The satellite was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space (Astrium), and started official broadcasting on 1 June 1998 with a mission life of 12 years. At launch the spacecraft had a gross mass of 1,666 kg.

It was parked at the geostationary orbital position of 7° West together with its sister Satellite Nilesat 102 and carries 12 Ku band 100 W high power wide beam transponders of 33 MHz bandwidth to provide digital communications and terrestrial Direct to Home ((DTH)) TV, Radio Broadcasting, Multimedia and Data services for countries in North Africa, South Europe and Middle East. The two satellites carry approximately 150 TV channels, with 100 of those originally coming from Nilesat 101, covering all the Middle East countries; north from Southern Europe to Central Africa, south, and east from Iran to the Atlantic Ocean, west. Nilesat 101 provided service to more than five million homes.


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