Galaxy 3C (or Galaxy 13) is a communications satellite operated by PanAmSat from 2000 to 2006, and by Intelsat from 2006 to today. It spent most of its operational life at an orbital location of 95° W. Galaxy 3C was launched on June 15, 2002, with a Zenit-3SL launch vehicle, from 154°w, 00°s, and covered North America & S. America (optional) with twenty four transponders each on the C- and sixteen in Ku band.
Mission type | Communications |
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Operator | PanAmSat / Intelsat |
COSPAR ID | 2002-030A ![]() |
SATCAT no. | 27445 |
Mission duration | 15 years |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | BSS-702 |
Manufacturer | Boeing Satellite Systems |
Launch mass | 4,860 kilograms (10,710 lb) |
Dry mass | 2,873 kilograms (6,334 lb) |
Power | 15 kW |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 June 2002, 22:39:30 (2002-06-15UTC22:39:30Z) UTC |
Rocket | Zenit-3SL |
Launch site | Sea Launch |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Geostationary |
Longitude | 95° west[1] |
Transponders | |
Band | 24 C-band 16 Ku-band |
Coverage area | North America, Canada, United States & Mexico |
Intelsat Corporation | |
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Intelsat I, II, III | |
Intelsat IV | |
Intelsat V | |
Intelsat VI | |
Intelsat 7-10 | |
ex-PanAmSat | |
Recent Intelsat | |
Galaxy (Intelsat Americas) | |
Other |
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← 2001 · Orbital launches in 2002 · 2003 → | |
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January | USA-164 | INSAT-3C |
February | Tsubasa · DASH · VEP-3 | HESSI | Iridium 90 · Iridium 91 · Iridium 94 · Iridium 95 · Iridium 96 | EchoStar VII | Intelsat 904 | Kosmos 2387 |
March | |
April | |
May | |
June | Intelsat 905 | STS-111 (Leonardo MPLM) | Ekspress A1R | Galaxy 3C | Iridium 97 · Iridium 98 | NOAA-17 | Progress M-46 |
July | |
August | |
September | |
October | |
November | |
December | TDRS-10 | Hot Bird 7 · Stentor · MFD-A · MFD-B | ADEOS II · Kanta Kun · FedSat · µ-LabSat 1 (RITE 1 · RITE 2) | NSS-6 | TrailBlazer-2001 STA · Saudisat 1C · LatinSat A · LatinSat B · UniSat 2 · Rubin 2 | Kosmos 2393 | Kosmos 2394 · Kosmos 2395 · Kosmos 2396 | Shenzhou 4 | Nimiq 2 |
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