Astra 2G

Astra 2G
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Communications
Operator	SES
COSPAR ID	2014-089A
SATCAT №	40364
Mission duration	15 years

Bus	Eurostar-3000
Manufacturer	Airbus Defence and Space
Launch mass	6,002 kilograms (13,232 lb)

Start of mission
Launch date	27 December 2014, 21:37 (2014-12-27UTC21:37Z) UTC
Rocket	Proton-M/Briz-M
Launch site	Baikonur 200/39
Contractor	ILS

Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	21.0°E (2015, testing) 43.5°E (2015, testing) 28.2°E (2015-)
Slot	Astra 28.2°E
Perigee	35,787 kilometres (22,237 mi)^[1]
Apogee	35,796 kilometres (22,243 mi)^[1]
Inclination	0.08 degrees^[1]
Period	1436.04 minutes^[1]
Epoch	23 January 2015, 20:53:32 UTC^[1]

Transponders
Band	62 Ku band, 4 Ka band
Bandwidth	250/500/600 megahertz

Astra 2G is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched to the Astra 28.2°E orbital slot in December 2014, at 03:37:49 Baikonur time.^[2]

Astra 2G is positioned at 28.5°E (part of the Astra 28.2°E orbital slot) and is the last of three 'second generation' satellites launched to this slot to replace the first generation Astra 2A, Astra 2B, Astra 2C and Astra 2D craft originally positioned there between 1998 and 2001, and it joined Astra 2E and Astra 2F launched in 2013 and 2012, respectively.^[3]

Market

Astra 2G carries both Ku-band and Ka-band payloads and will deliver broadcast, VSAT and broadband services to Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and will also provide the ability to connect West Africa to Europe via Ka-band.^[4] The Astra 28.2°E position was established in 1998 to provide digital TV, digital radio and multimedia services to the UK and Republic of Ireland, and a major part of Astra 2G’s mission is to continue, extend and backup this provision. Along with Astra 2E and Astra 2F it will deliver programming to almost 13 million satellite homes, over 3 million cable homes, and 700,000 IPTV homes in the UK and Ireland, in particular for channels from the major UK digital satellite TV platforms, BSkyB and Freesat.

Astra 2G also supports SATMED, a satellite-based e-health platform developed by SES and supported by the Luxembourg Government and the Ministry for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action which enables communication between doctors, enabling the transfer and exchange of medical knowledge and supporting tools for medical e-learning and e-teaching to improve public health in emerging and developing countries, particularly in isolated areas. ^[2]

Broadcasting footprints

Astra 2G has three Ku-band downlink beams and one Ka-band beam:^[4]

The Europe beam is centred on the Benelux countries with reception from a 60 cm dish available across most of Europe - west to the Portuguese eastern border, east to Belarus, north to Estonia and south to coast of North Africa.
The UK Spot beam provides maximum signal (for reception with 45 cm dishes) over the whole UK, Ireland, Benelux and northern France with a sharp roll-off of signal level outside this region, in close approximation of the UK Beam of Astra 2D. This enables channels to be broadcast free-to-air but with reception effectively constrained to the British Isles, and has been the basis for the Freesat free-to-air UK platform.^[5]
The strongest signals of the West Africa beam (receivable on 50 cm dishes) covers Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and northern Cameroon, with additional "lobes" for parts oif Gabon and Congo. Reception on larger dishes is available across the entire sub-Saharan west Africa region.

The Ka-band footprint is centred on France with coverage over all of western Europe.

History

The launch of Astra 2G was intended to be from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by ILS Proton-M rocket a month earlier, on November 28, 2014 but technical problems with the launch vehicle caused it to be rolled back from the launch pad to undergo a component replacement. The satellite had arrived at Baikonur on October 29 after a delayed flight from Europe - an emergency landing of the transport aircraft in the city of Ulyanovsk due to engine trouble required replacement of the aircraft’s engine and a two-day delay.^[6]

Finally launched successfully on December 27, 2014, at 03:37:49 Baikonur time,^[7] the craft was initially positioned at 21.0°E for three months and then tested at 43.5°E^[8]^[9] before moving to the Astra 28.2°E slot in June 2015.^[10]

On June 18, 2015 the first six channels, including ITV and CH4, began broadcasting from Astra 2G,^[11] transferred from Astra 2E, Astra 2F and, in particular from Eutelsat 28A, which was some two years beyond its expected end-of-life and operating with some transponders considerably under power.^[12] The final Eutelsat 28A channels, including the Freesat EPG data channel, transferred to Astra 2G on June 29, 2015.^[13]

Active Transponders

Below is a list of the TV channels broadcast from active transponders on Astra 2G as of July 2015:^[14]

In the list, channels broadcast with a one-hour delay are shown Channel +1hr. Where both the original and the delayed channel are broadcast from the same transponder, this is shown in one entry as Channel [also +1hr].

UK Beam

Tp57 10.964 GHz H 22000 5/6:

5star [also +1hr]
5USA [also +1hr]
Channel 5 [also +1hr]
Channel 5 +24
Channel 5 HD
Spike UK

Tp59 10.994 GHz H 22000 5/6:

ITV Anglia West
ITV Border Scotland
ITV Central East
ITV Meridian North
ITV Yorkshire East
ITV Tyne Tees +1hr
ITV Yorkshire West +1hr
ITV Wales [also +1hr]

Tp61 11.023 GHz H 23000 2/3 DVB-S2:

BBC One Wales HD
BBC One Scotland HD
BBC Four HD
BBC News HD
CBeebies HD

Tp63 11.053 GHz H 23000 2/3 DVB-S2:

ITV 2 HD (encrypted in Videoguard)
ITV 4 HD (encrypted in Videoguard)
ITV Granada HD
ITV Tyne Tees HD
ITV Wales HD

Tp64 11.068 GHz V 23000 2/3 DVB-S2 (encrypted in Videoguard):

ITV 3 HD
ITV Encore HD
STV West HD (unencrypted)
Ulster TV HD (unencrypted)

Tp65 11.082 GHz H 22000 5/6 (encrypted in Videoguard):

BT Sport 1, 2, Extra
BT Sport ESPN
BT Sport Europe Promo
BT Sport Mosaic
Motors TV
Inspiration TV (unencrypted)

Tp66 11.097 GHz V 22000 2/3 DVB-S2:

ITV Anglia East HD
ITV Central West HD
ITV London HD
ITV Meridian East HD
ITV Yorkshire West HD

Tp67 11.112 GHz H 22000 5/6 (encrypted in Videoguard):

Boomerang [also +1h]
Cartoon Network [also +1h]
CNN International (unencrypted)
MUTV HD

Tp68 11.126 GHz V 22000 5/6:

Channel 4 HD
4seven

European Beam

Tp69 11.141 GHz H 22000 5/6 (encrypted in Videoguard):

BET UK (unencrypted)
Comedy Central UK +1hr
Comedy Central Ireland [also +1hr]
Comedy Central Extra Ireland
Comedy Central Extra UK +1hr
MTV Music Ireland
Nick Junior Ireland
Nick Junior 2 Ireland
Nick Junior UK +1hr
Nick Junior 2 UK
Nickelodeon Ireland

Tp71 11.171 GHz H 22000 5/6 (encrypted in Videoguard):

Al Jazeera English (unencrypted)
Movies4Men [also +1hr] (unencrypted)
Premier Sports
Racing UK
Setanta Ireland
Sony Movie Channel [also +1hr]

Tp105 11.224 GHz H 27500 2/3:

Ahlulbayt TV
Assalam TV
Blue Ocean Network
Chat Box
Colors
Film On TV
Gospel Channel
Information TV
Irish TV
Now Music
Property TV
Showcase TV
Sony Max (encryptyed in Videoguard)
Takbeer TV
TJC Choice
Ummah Channel

Tp106 11.224 GHz V 27500 2/3:

NHK World TV HD
Premier Sports HD (encrypted in Videoguard)
RT UK HD

Tp107 11.264 GHz H 27500 2/3:

3e (encrypted in Videoguard)
ABN TV
Adult Channel (encrypted in Videoguard)
Channel Aka
CBR Reality +1hr
Daystar TV
Gay Network
Horror Channel
Life OK (encrypted in Videoguard)
Olive TV
Playboy TV (encrypted in Videoguard)
Safeer TV
Star Gold (encrypted in Videoguard)
Star Jalsha (encrypted in Videoguard)
StarPlus (encrypted in Videoguard)
TCM +1hr (encrypted in Videoguard)
Travel Channel +1hr
Vintage TV

Tp108 11.264 GHz V 27500 2/3:

B4U Movies (encrypted in Videoguard)
B4U Music
EWTN
God TV
Islam Channel
MTA Int’l
Phoenix CNE
Revelation TV
TBN

Tp89 11.464 GHz H 22000 5/6:

AIT Int’l (encrypted in Videoguard)
Akaal Channel
Bangla TV
BEN
British Muslim TV
CCTV News
DM Global
Euronews UK
Islam TV
Loveworld TV
Nollywood Movies (encrypted in Videoguard)
Notts TV (encrypted in Videoguard)
NTV Europe
Prime TV
UMP Movies

Tp90 11.479 GHz V 22000 5/6:

Arise News
Channel I
CNBC UK
Hidyat TV
Iqra
Iqra Bangla
London Live (encrypted in Videoguard)
Madani Channel
More>Movies +1hr
PTV Global
STV Edinburgh (encrypted in Videoguard)
STV Glasgow (encrypted in Videoguard)
TVC News [also +1hr]
Venus TV
Voxafrica UK

Tp92 11.509 GHz V 22000 5/6:

&TV HD
Holiday & Cruise
The Mall
The Department Store
Peace TV UK
Peace TV Urdu
Red Hot (encrypted in Videoguard)

Tp95 11.553 GHz H 22000 5/6:

Capital TV
Clubland TV
Gems TV
Heart TV
High Street TV
High Street TV Extra
Home Store
NDTV 24x7
Noor TV
Planet Pop
PTC
Ramadan TV
Record Europe
Rocks & Co
Sangat TV
Sikh Channel
TV Shop

Tp96 11.568 GHz H 22000 5/6:

ABP News UK
Best Direct
Box nation
Geo
Glory TV
Horse & Country TV
JML Direct
More>Movies
Retail Therapy TV
RT English
SET (encrypted in Videoguard)
Sony SAB TV Asia
Travel Channel
Tristar
Tru TV
TV Warehouse

Tp97 11.582 GHz H 22000 5/6 (encrypted in Videoguard):

Animal Planet +1hr
Discovery History +1hr
Discovery Home & Health +1hr
Discovery Science +1hr
Discovery Shed
DMAX [also +1hr]

I*nvestigation Discovery [also +1hr]

Quest +1hr
TLC +1hr
TLC +2hr

Tp98 11.597 GHz V 23000 8/9 DVB-S2 (encrypted in Videoguard):

BT Sport 1, 2 HD
BT Sport promo HD

Tp103 11.671 GHz H 22000 5/6:

&TV
ARY Digital (encrypted in Videoguard)
Geo News Int’l
Made in Tyne & Wear
Pavers Shoes
Samaa TV
Talking Pictures TV
V Channel
Zee TV (encrypted in Videoguard)
Zee Cinema (encrypted in Videoguard)
Zee Punjabi (encrypted in Videoguard)
Zing UK

Tp104 11.686 GHz H 22000 5/6:

Ahlebait TV Networks
ATN Bangla
Channel S
Faith World
Fashion One
Hum TV
KICC TV
Made in Bristol (encrypted in Videoguard)
Made in Cardiff (encrypted in Videoguard)
Made in Leeds (encrypted in Videoguard)
OH TV
The Word network

References

1 2 3 4 5 "ASTRA 2G Satellite details 2014-089A NORAD 40364". N2YO. 23 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
1 2 "ASTRA 2G SATELLITE ROARS INTO ORBIT" (Press release). SES. November 28, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
↑ "SES Orders Four New Satellites From ASTRIUM" (Press release). SES. 30 November 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
1 2 ASTRA 2G SES factsheet. January 2015. Accessed January 3, 2014
↑ Bains, Geoff. "Flight of the Big Birds" What Satellite & Digital TV February 2012 pp29
↑ "Proton Technical Issues Postpone ILS Launch of Astra 2G" (Press release). Space News. November 26, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
↑ Successful Proton Mission Caps busy Year of Russian Space Launches Spaceflight 101. December 27, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2015
↑ Single Satellite View for ASTRA 2G accessed March 3, 2015
↑ Astra 2G: Testing at 43.5°E accessed May 18, 2015
↑ Real Time Satellite Tracking And Predictions Accessed June 29, 2015
↑ http://www.satandpcguy.com/Site/astra_2g_satellite_reception_testing_news_updates.php] Sat and PC Guy blog. June 1, 2015. Accessed June 26, 2015
↑ RACE AGAINST TIME TO REPLACE FAILING EUROBIRD SATELLITE Best TV Choice. June 1, 2015. Accessed June 29, 2015
↑ Freesat EPG and last few channels transfer from Eutelsat 28A to new Astra 2 satellites Sat and PC Guy blog. June 29, 2015. Accessed June 29, 2015
↑ "Astra 2G at 28.2°E". LyngSat. Retrieved December 31, 2015.

External links

SES - Official trade/industry site
OnAstra - Official consumers/viewers' site
SES guide to receiving Astra satellites
SES guide to channels broadcasting on Astra satellites
Astra 2E Reception Overseas
Astra 2G Information & Photos
Satmed website

SES Astra satellites

Astra 1	Astra 1A Astra 1B Astra 1C Astra 1D Astra 1E Astra 1F Astra 1G Astra 1H Astra 1K Astra 1KR Astra 1L Astra 1M Astra 1N

Astra 2	Astra 2A Astra 2B Astra 2C Astra 2D Astra 2E Astra 2F Astra 2G

Astra 3	Astra 3A Astra 3B

Astra 4	Astra 4A SES-5 / Astra 4B

Astra 5	Astra 5A Astra 5B

Other	AMC-12 (as Astra 4A) Sirius 3

Boxes	5.0°E 19.2°E 28.2°E 23.5°E 31.5°E

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