Astra 1H is one of the
Astra communications satellite
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s owned and operated by
SES
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Business and economics
* Socioeconomic status
* Scottish Economic Society, a learned society in Scotland
* SES, callsign of the TV station SES/RTS (Mount Gambier, South Australia)
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.
History
SES ordered its Hughes 601HP satellite, in 1995 for Astra 1H.
Launch
Astra-1H was launched on 18 June 1999 at 01:49:30
UTC, by a
Proton-K
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/
DM-2M launch vehicle, from
Site 81/23 at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
in
Kazakhstan
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. It was maneuvered into a
geostationary orbit
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at 19.2° East of
longitude
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.
References
{{Orbital launches in 1999
Astra satellites
Satellites of Luxembourg
Spacecraft launched in 1999
1999 in spaceflight
1999 in Luxembourg
Satellites using the BSS-601 bus