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Astra communications satellite
Astra 1G
was one of the
Astra
communications satellites
owned and operated by
SES
.
History
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SES ordered its Hughes 601HP satellite, in 1994 for Astra 1G.
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Astra 1G was retired to a
graveyard orbit
in 2023.
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Launch
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Astra-1G was launched on 2 December 1997 at 23:10:37
UTC
, by a
Proton-K
/
DM-2M
launch vehicle, from
Site 81/23
at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
in
Kazakhstan
. It was maneuvered into a
geostationary orbit
and at 19.2° East of
longitude
.
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See also
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References
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External links
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Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). Crewed flights are indicated in
underline
. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in
italics
. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in (brackets).
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