H2Sat at 63° E
also known as Heinrich Hertz
Technical details
- Status
- active
- Orbital position
- 63° EChannel line-up at 63° E | Coverage maps
- NORAD number
- 57213
- COSPAR number
- 2023-093A
- Operator
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Manufacturer
- OHB System GMBH
- Model
- SmallGEO (Luxor) bus
- Launch
- 05 Jul 2023 from Guiana Space Center on Ariane 5 ECA
- Launch mass
- 3408 kg
- Expected lifetime
- 15+
- Beacon
- 2285.973, 10951 RHCP, 10953.5 V, 20199.7 LHCP
- Orbit
- GEO
About H2Sat
In accordance with the German space strategy the Heinrich-Hertz mission shall achieve the following goals: Maintaining and developing key skills of German payload and platform technologies for geostationary communication satellites; Securing and strengthening system capability for payloads of geostationary communications satellites; Demonstration of scientific/technical communication experiments including new ground technologies; Maintaining and expanding the system capability for small geostationary communication satellites in an independent German Mission; Provision of satellite transponder capacity for the tasks of the German Ministry of Defense.