Launch Overview
Vehicle
Ariane 42L
Agency
Arianespace
Site / Pad
CSG / ELA2
Outcome
Success
Flight
V114 L483c
COSPAR Designator
1998-070
Mission
Satmex 5 (Communications)
SATMEX 5 is a Hughes HS-601HP or "high power" version of the body-stabilized spacecraft. It features more than 7,000 Watts of payload power, at least 10 times the capacity of Morelos II. Through such innovations as dual-junction gallium arsenide solar cells, radiation-cooled traveling-wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs), advanced battery technology, and a xenon ion propulsion system, XIPS, the HS-601HP can carry payloads twice as powerful as those on the HS 601 models, with an expected 15-year mission lifetime.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Ariane 42L
Provider
Arianespace
Agency launches
111 (9 YTD)
Site launches
123 (10 YTD)
Pad launches
86 (9 YTD)