Astra 3B will have 40 transponders in the European beam and 12 transponders (probably for the VSAT and EU-ME interconnection needs) in the Middle East beam.
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Thanks for clarification. Now I understood that there would be 12 additional 14 GHz transponder for uplink and some 11 GHz transponders for VSAT downlink. Am I right?
If you want your STB to automatically detect satellite index number in collocation for each transponder, then I think it's impossible because as far as I remember the NIT tables includes only sat. collocation name and orbital position but not satellite index number. You can get correct...
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