Eutelsat 3B [EADS]
Official name EUTE 3B
Alternative name Eutelsat 3B
Cospar ID 2014-030A
Norad ID 39773
Launch date 2014-05-26
Launch site SEAL
Launch vehicle Zenit-3SL (2)
Country/Organization International
Type application Communication
Operator Eutelsat
RCS size LARGE
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 1436.09
Inclination (deg) 0.07
Perigee (km) 35774
Apogee (km) 35799
Eccentricity 0.000349293728081819
Mean motion (revs. per day) 1.00272267058471
Semi-Major axis (km) 42164.635
Raan (deg) 19.7719
Arg of perigee (deg) 55.5548
Shape Box + 2 Pan
Mass (kg) 5967
Height (m) 7.5
Width (m) 2.8
Depth (m) 2.8
Span (m^2) 31
Lifetime +15 years
Contractors EADS Astrium → Airbus Defence and Space
Equipment 51 C, Ku and Ka-band transponders
Propulsion ?
Configuration Eurostar-3000
Power 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries

Eutelsat selected EADS Astrium in July 2011 to build the Eutelsat 3B communications satellite to provide video, data, Internet and telecom services across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of South America, notably Brazil. The satellite operates from Eutelsat 3° East location in geostationary orbit.

Based on Astrium?s Eurostar-3000 platform, Eutelsat 3B operates 51 transponders in C, Ku and Ka-bands. Its ten antennas enable Eutelsat 3B to provide fixed widebeams and steerable spotbeams to regional and national markets with a scalable allocation of power and spectrum per beam in Ka-band.

Launched in May 2014, Eutelsat 3B had a launch mass of about six tons, an electrical power of 12 kW and is designed to deliver more than 15 years of in-orbit operation.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
EUTE 3B 2014-030A 2014-05-26 SEAL Zenit-3SL (2)