| Auto: | all |
| Eutelsat 3D | |
| Mission Type: | Communications |
| Operator: | Eutelsat |
| Cospar Id: | 2013-022A |
| Satcat: | 39163 |
| Mission Duration: | 15 years (planned) |
| Spacecraft Bus: | Spacebus 4000 |
| Manufacturer: | Thales Alenia Space |
| Launch Mass: | 5470kg (12,060lb) |
| Launch Date: | UTC |
| Launch Rocket: | Proton-M/Briz-M |
| Launch Site: | Baikonur Cosmodrome 200/39 |
| Launch Contractor: | International Launch Services |
| Orbit Epoch: | 24 January 2015, 05:09:19 UTC[1] |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Geostationary |
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 35805km (22,248miles) |
| Orbit Periapsis: | 35782km (22,234miles) |
| Orbit Inclination: | 0.05 degrees |
| Orbit Period: | 1436.14 minutes (23.935 hrs) |
| Orbit Longitude: | 3° east |
| Apsis: | gee |
| Instruments: | Transponders, Footprints, and Frequency Bands |
| Trans Band: | 56 Ka and Ku transponders |
Eutelsat 3D is a communications satellite operated by Eutelsat, provides services to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. It initially was located at 3° E in geosynchronous orbit in a fixed point above the equator, where Eutelsat already has two satellites, Eutelsat 3A and Eutelsat 3C. When Eutelsat 3B was launched in 2014 this satellite was moved to 7°E.
The satellite has four footprints and broadcasts on both the Ka band and the Ku band. Three footprints serve Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa in both Ka and Ku bands. The fourth footprint covers sub-Saharan Africa but only in Ku band. It has 56 transponders in total. The satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space using their spacebus 4000 satellite bus.
The satellite was launched by International Launch Services from pad 39 at Site 200 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch used a Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M upper stage. The first three stages of the Proton fire for the first 9 minutes, 42 seconds. After that the Briz-M upper stage takes over with five separate burns until the spacecraft separates from the upper stage 9 hours and 13 minutes after launch.
The satellite launched on 14 May 2013 at 16:02 UTC and was successfully placed into geostationary transfer orbit. It was given the International Designator 2013-022A and the US satellite catalog reference 39163.