Intelsat 5 (IS-5, PAZ_5 (System SS_Paz), Arabsat 2C) was a satellite providing television and communication services for Intelsat, which it was GSO to July 2024.
Satellite description Intelsat 5 (PAS-5) was built by Hughes Space and Communications. Intelsat 5 was the satellite that used Hughes’s HS‑601HP high‑power platform and it was able to produce almost 10 kilowatts of power at the start of its life.
Intelsat 5 used dual‑junction gallium arsenide cells, a newer battery system and a highly efficient xenon‑ion propulsion system (XIPS). PanAmSat was the customer for the HS‑601HP platform.
Intelsat 5 was launched on 28 August 1997 on a Proton-K rocket with a Block DM stage from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was designed to give video, direct‑to‑home television and telecommunications services covering the Americas and giving access to Europe.
Controllers saw that the nickel–hydrogen battery of Intelsat 5 was getting weaker. The satellite could not keep its payload working when it passed through an eclipse so parts of the payload had to be switched off during those times. The battery problem made Intelsat 5 lose a lot of capacity. PanAmSat received a settlement of about US$185 million after it was declared a loss, for insurance purposes.
Arabsat 2C
PAS 5 was leased in May 2002 to the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat), under the name of Arabsat 2C. Arabsat used the spacecraft's C-band transponders to complement its partially defunct Arabsat 3A at 26° East.
The television channels it broadcasts include BBC World News, Australia Network and regular feeds of Entertainment Tonight and The Wall Street Journal Report. As of 28 September 2012, BBC World News was replaced with a static video slate advising that the service would be only available on the existing horizontally aligned lower powered Pacific beam on Intelsat 19 which is 3.94 GHz.
Intelsat 5
Intelsat 5 was moved at 169° East and has been broadcasting Australia Network Pacific, Antarktida on the horizontally aligned L military Pacific Beam 4.1 GHz when went silent and was sent to a higher "move orbit" on 19 October 2012 around 23:00 UTC to 166°e. End of GSO, TDRSS type i=9°: 08.07.2024.. Used: TDRS J (Ken Bernhard), 171°W, i=10°.
References
External links Intelsat 5 New Intelsat 5 Channels in New Zealand, BBC World and Australia Network