Status
Success
Nimiq-2
Launch Time
Sun Dec 29, 2002 23:16 UTC
Sun Dec 29, 2002 23:16 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Nimiq-2
Nimiq 1 and 2, high-power Ku/Ka-band satellites, feature 32 active 24 MHz Ku-band transponders with 120 Watt power amplifiers, and Nimiq 2 also has a Ka-band payload that will provide broadband services. Nimiq 1 and 2 are A2100AX satellites, manufactured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, with a minimum service life of 12 years. The satellite's name – chosen from 36,000 submissions in a national contest in 1998 – is an Inuit word for any object or force that unites things or binds them together.
Nimiq 2 experienced a malfunction that affected the available power on the spacecraft on 20 February 2003. The satellite is currently generating sufficient power to operate only 26 of the 32 transponders.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,600.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Location
Site 81/24, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2002
65th orbital launch attempt
Proton-M
2nd mission
1st mission of 2002
2nd successful mission