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Product Name: NSS-8
Product Description
New Skies Satellites ordered its first Satellite Development Center
spacecraft in March 2001. The spacecraft, called NSS-8, is a Boeing 702 model,
the most capable satellite today.
New Skies will deploy NSS-8 in the company's slot at 57 degrees East
longitude where it will provide C-band and Ku-band expansion capacity in
response to demand in the Indian Ocean region. NSS-8 will be launched aboard a
Sea Launch rocket and is expected to commence commercial service in early 2005.
Stowed (left); In Orbit (right)
NSS-8 will carry 56 active C-band and 36 active Kuband high power
transponders, making it one of the largest and highest power satellites in the
region. Its 27 beams will create nine footprints that will blanket Europe, Asia,
India, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and the Indian Ocean. Extensive
beam-to-beam interconnectivity built into NSS-8's design will allow New Skies to
offer flexible solutions to customer requirements and respond to market
conditions over the spacecraft's life.
Satellite Development Center introduced the Boeing 702 model in October 1995
as an evolution of its popular body-stabilized Boeing 601 line. The Boeing 702
can deliver payloads exceeding 90 active transponders and provide multiple
coverage beams. Power levels range from 10 kilowatts to more than 18 kilowatts.
New Skies is a global satellite communications company with five satellites
in geosynchronous orbit and ground facilities around the world. Headquartered in
The Hague, The Netherlands, and with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong,
Johannesburg, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C.,
New Skies is one of only four fixed satellite services companies with truly
global satellite coverage. New Skies offers video, voice, data and Internet
communications services to a range of telecommunications carriers, broadcasters,
large corporations, Internet service providers and government organizations
around the world.
Boeing Satellite Development Center is the world's leading manufacturer of
commercial communications satellites and a major provider of space systems,
satellites, and payloads for national defense, science, and environmental
applications.
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