NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Optus-11

Launch Time
NET 2025

Rocket

Ariane 64
Image Credit: Arianespace
Arianespace
Status: Active
Price: $106.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 15,370 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,650 kg
Payload to GTO: 11,500 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 62.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 20.0 m

Mission Details

Optus-11

Optus-11 is a Ku-band communications satellite with a coverage zone encompassing Australia and New Zealand, based on Airbus Space’s new standard OneSat product line.

Optus-11 incorporates a number of advanced technologies, especially the latest developments in digital processing, plus active antennas enabling the creation of several thousand beams. It has the ability to adjust its coverage, capacity and frequency, through on board processing and active antennas with beam forming capability.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,000.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

ELA-4, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, France