Turksat 5B at 42° E
Technical details
- Status
- active
- Orbital position
- 42° EChannel line-up at 42° E | Coverage maps
- NORAD number
- 50212
- COSPAR number
- 2021-126A
- Operator
- Turksat
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Model
- Eurostar-3000EOR
- Launch
- 19 Dec 2021 from Cape Canaveral SFS on Falcon 9 Block 5
- Launch mass
- 4500 kg
- Expected lifetime
- 15+ years
- Orbit
- GEO
Beams
- Ku-band Middle East beam (Ku band) View footprint
- Ku-band Turkey beam (Ku band) View footprint
- Ku-band West beam (Ku band) View footprint
- Ku-band West New beam (Ku band) View footprint
- Ka-band Consolidated Multispot beam (Ka band) View footprint
- Ku-band East beam (Ku band) View footprint
About Turksat 5B
Ku and Ka-band high-throughput (HTS) payloads (73 spot beams) offering satellite broadband speeds of up to 50 Gbp