Airbus<\/b> has delivered the Inmarsat-6 to Florida ahead of its February launch, the manufacturer announced Monday. The Inmarsat<\/b> satellite, I-6 F2, is part of the operator\u2019s work to upgrade its Elera L-band and Global Xpress Ka-band networks. <\/p>\n
Airbus Defence and Space shipped the satellite from Airbus\u2019 testing facility in Toulouse, France, on the Airbus A300-600ST Super Transporter aircraft, known as Beluga. This was the second time that Airbus transported a satellite to Florida this way since launching the Airbus Beluga Transport service in early 2022. <\/p>\n
Inmarsat said that spacecraft experts now have approximately three weeks for final testing and integration before I-6 F2 launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in February.<\/p>\n
This is the second Inmarsat-6 satellite, and it is based on the Airbus Eurostar E3000 spacecraft. With a launch mass of 5.5 tons, it is a dual-payload satellite, with a large 9 m aperture L-band antenna and six multi-beam Ka-band antennas. It also has a modular digital processor to provide full routing flexibility over up to 8000 channels and dynamic power allocation to over 200 spot beams in L-band. <\/p>\n
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched its twin satellite, I-6 F1, in December 2021. Is scheduled to enter service soon. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the 10th GEO telecommunications satellite we have built for our long-term customer Inmarsat, a leading provider of global mobile satellite communication services, and with I-6 F1 the satellites will enable a step change in the capabilities and capacity for their Elera services, and deliver significant additional capacity for their Global Xpress network,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Gaullier, head of Telecommunications & Navigation Systems at Airbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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