Intelsat 902 (IS-902) was the second of 9 new Intelsat satellites launched in August 2001 at 62°E. It will provide

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and television broadcast to

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, Sub-Saharan Africa,

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, the Far East and Australia through its 44 C band and 12 Ku band

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Specifications

* Propulsion: R-4D-15 HiPAT * Power: 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries * Perigee: * Apogee: * Semimajor axis: * Orbital period: 0.02393 hours * Orbital inclination: 0.0 degrees * Transponders: 44 C band and 12 Ku band * Beacons: 3947.5RHCP, 3948.0RHCP, 3950.0V, 3952.0RHCP, 3952.5RHCP, 11198RHCP, 11452RHCPDirk Krebs, Gunter.
Intelsat-9 (901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907)
''Gunter's Space Page''. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

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