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H2Sat

Also known as Heinrich Hertz

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Identification

NORAD / COSPAR
57213 / 2023-093A
Operator
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Orbit & position

Orbit
GEO
Position
1° E (0.7° E)
Altitude
—
Velocity
—
Period
—
Eccentricity
—

Hardware

Manufacturer
OHB System GMBH
Model
SmallGEO (Luxor) bus
Mass
3408 kg

Launch

Launch date
05 Jul 2023
Launch site
Guiana Space Center
Launch vehicle
Ariane 5 ECA
Design life
15 yr

Beacons

2285.97310951 RHCP10953.5 V20199.7 LHCP

Comment

In accordance with the German space strategy the Heinrich-Hertz mission shall achieve the following goals: Maintaining and developing key skills of German payload and platform technologies for geostationary communication satellites; Securing and strengthening system capability for payloads of geostationary communications satellites; Demonstration of scientific/technical communication experiments including new ground technologies; Maintaining and expanding the system capability for small geostationary communication satellites in an independent German Mission; Provision of satellite transponder capacity for the tasks of the German Ministry of Defense.