SES17 (will be 67.1W)

Captain Jack said:
17E to replace Amos 5?
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No, from Gunter's: "SES-17 will cover North America, South America, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic ocean."
For such coverage, location will be much more to the West, say 50°W or so.
 
photo of coverage
 

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Yeah, even more to the West I'd say looking at that graphic.
67°W comes to mind, that is above the southern tip of Venezuela.
The recently launched Ku-band satellite SES-10 is suspiciously stotted at 66.9°W, as if already waiting for the next one at 67.1°W. :D
 
SES17 will launch overnight (~0100 uk time & it can be watched here

 
light VA255 now scheduled on October 23

Ooctober 23, 2021

New launch date for SES-17 / SYRACUSE 4A

The investigations on the ground equipment being completed and the anomaly having been identified and corrected, the new launch window for Ariane Flight VA255:

Between 09:01 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Washington, D.C. time, on October 23;
Between 10:01 p.m. and 00:30 a.m. Kourou time, on October 23;
Between 01:01 a.m. and 03:30 a.m. Universal time (UTC), on October 24;
Between 03:01 a.m. and 05:30 a.m. Paris time, October 24;
Between 10:01 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Tokyo time, October 24.

The Ariane launch vehicle and spacecraft SES-17 and SYRACUSE 4A are in stable and safe conditions on the launch pad.
 
SES-17 will be at 67.1°W, payload Ka-band 17.3...19.4 & 19.6...20.2 GHz.
TT&C on 11704.5 and 12195.5 MHz.

The other passenger is Syracuse 4A for the French military, X- and Ka-band.
 
Ta - will edit the title of the thread - it was 4 years ago when I started it!
 
The launch of SES-17 and Syracuse-4A was successfull.
The ID's are not yet assigned to both satellites, but they will be:
49332 2021-095A
49333 2021-095B
Both have full-electric propulsion, so it will take many months to reach GEO.
 
A bit late to reply to this, but looking through the SatStar website for satellite footprints for SES-17, with its large selection of Ka-Band footprints there appears to be one "dedicated" for most the UK & Ireland (SA66) & the northern reaches of France, while beam SA61 covers Scotland, NI & a NW portion of the Republic of Ireland. I'm not sure where SatStar have sourced their footprint maps from for this satellite (SES's own site doesn't list them or I haven't found it!) but they're normally reliable. Looks like in the western European skies this is now the satellite farthest west in the arc (67.1W) that has a beam intended for "domestic" reception in at least the UK & Ireland, displacing the Telstar 14R & 19 Vantage satellites at 63E with their North Atlantic beams (though they're Ku Band as opposed to SES-17's Ka-Band).
 
49332 SES-17 arrived near 67.2°W two weeks ago, now near 67.0°W and should be testing now.
49333 Syracuse 4A seems to have chosen near 45.5°E for testing, final location will be 47.0°E to join or replace Syracuse 3A.
 
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