Al Yah 3 was launched in May 2018.
Al Yah 3, Hylas 4, and MEV-2 have each lost one of two onboard Power Processing Units since the issue emerged in 2022.
Al Yah 3 was launched short of its target orbit in January 2018 and burned through fuel reserves to reach its intended orbit.
Al Yah 3 launched on 2018-01-25 on an Ariane 5 and has a mass of 3,795 kg.
Yahsat’s Al Yah 3, Avanti Communications’ Hylas 4, and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicles MEV-1 and MEV-2 are operating with reduced power to their thrusters following a problem with onboard Power Processing Units.
Yahsat made an insurance claim of around $115,000,000 for Al Yah 3’s earlier launch issue.
Al Yah 3 provides communications coverage split between Brazil and Africa.
Until Jupiter-3 is available, Hughes is using capacity from Yahsat’s Al Yah-3 satellite to maintain service.
Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 Ka-band satellite payload is an integral part of the HughesNet service.
EchoStar is expanding into South America using capacity on a Telesat satellite, a Eutelsat satellite, and Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
EchoStar’s subscriber base at the end of 2019 was up 116,000 from the year prior partly due to capacity made available in November on Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
YahSat’s Al Yah 3 experienced an off-course Ariane 5 launch in 2018 that generated a $115,000,000 claim.
Konnect Africa began service in late 2018 using leased capacity on Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.
The new Hughes–Yahsat joint venture will use more than 65 gigabits per second of Ka-band capacity supplied from Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite and Hughes’ leased payloads on Eutelsat’s 65 West A and Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage satellites.
Hughes invested $100,000,000 in the joint venture with Yahsat, and Yahsat contributed $60,000,000 from an insurance claim on Al Yah 3.
Yahsat began offering service in Brazil and five African nations with Al Yah 3.
Al Yah 3 is a Ka-band satellite that launched in January on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Al Yah 3 launched in January on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket and provides coverage in Africa and Latin America.
Eutelsat will begin rolling out service across 19 Sub-Saharan African countries using capacity on the all-Ka-band Al Yah 3 through internet service providers.
Eutelsat will launch its African broadband service using 10 Gbps of capacity on Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite.