![]() ![]() Launched in March 2002 by an Ariane 4 flying from the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana, JCSAT-2A was designed for a minimum of eleven years’ service – with a mass at liftoff of 2,460 kilograms (5,420 lb). It will replace the JCSAT-2A spacecraft – formerly known as JCSAT-8 – at a longitude of 154 degrees East. Once in orbit, JCSAT-14 is expected to be renamed JCSAT-2B. The satellite has a dry mass of 2,194.2 kilograms (4,837.4 lb) and carries 2,498.0 kilograms (5,507.1) of fuel, giving it a total mass at launch of 4,696.2 kilograms (10,353 lb). Twin solar arrays – with a span of 25.5 metres (83.7 feet) and surface area of 44.8 square metres (482 square feet) – generate electrical power for the spacecraft, with an estimated output of between 9.8 and 11.0 kilowatts at solstice and equinox respectively at the beginning of its operational life expected to fall to around 9.0 to 9.9 kilowatts at the end of its design life. The satellite is designed for fifteen years of service. It will be used to provide communications services to Asia, Oceania and Hawaii. JCSAT-14 carries twenty-six C-band and 18 Ku-band transponders, providing a total bandwidth of 2,853 megahertz. SpaceX was contracted to provide launch services – then targeted for the second half of 2015 – in January 2014. ![]() Space Systems/Loral constructed the satellite, which is based on the SSL-1300 bus.ĭevelopment of JCSAT-14 was announced in June 2013, when Loral confirmed they had been awarded the contract to build the spacecraft. The JCSAT-14 spacecraft will be operated by Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation, a Japanese telecommunications company formed in 2008 through the merger of Sky Perfect Communications, JSAT Corporation and Space Communications Corporation. Overall, it is the twenty-fourth flight of the Falcon 9 and SpaceX’s twenty-ninth launch. ![]() One of these launches was shared by two satellites – ABS-3A and Eutelsat 115 West B – last March. JCSAT-14 was the ninth geostationary communications satellite launched by SpaceX, with Friday’s mission the eighth time Falcon 9 has targeted a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The mission, which included another – and successful – experimental attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage, launched from Cape Canaveral at the start of a two-hour window that opened at 01:21 local time (05:21 UTC). Making its fourth flight of the year, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has deployed the JCSAT-14 communications satellite Friday. ![]()
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