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Friday, 26 July 2013 13:10

Alphabus

Alphabus is the name given to a family of heavy geostationary communications satellites. 

Alphabus is developed by a joint venture between Thales Alenia Space and EADS Astrium Satellites in France, with support of the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The Alphabus platform is designed for communications satellites with payload power in the range 12-18 kW. Satellites based on Alphabus will have a launch mass in the range 6 to 8 tonnes, 40% more than the most powerful Spacebus 4000.

Alphasat is the first satellite designed with this platform.

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