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Launch Date
10/13/2005
Launch Site
CSG ELA3
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Launch Vehicle
Ariane 5GS (Ariane 5 Family)
The article was updated on 2022-08-20 with details about Galaxy 15’s L-band payload that is no longer in use.
High space weather activity likely knocked out Galaxy 15’s onboard electronics needed to communicate with the satellite and keep it locked in its geostationary orbit slot at 133 degrees West.
Galaxy 15 carries 24 C-band transponders serving media customers in North America.
Galaxy 15 is drifting out of its geostationary orbit slot at 133 degrees West and will soon begin transiting through orbital locations licensed for other satellites.
Galaxy 15 carries 24 C-band transponders serving media customers in North America.
The Syracuse 3A/Galaxy 15 flight was to be launched from Ariane launch complex N° 3 (ELA3) in Kourou, French Guiana.
As of September 23, 2005, the launch of Syracuse 3A and Galaxy 15 was delayed by a few days due to an anomaly on an element of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
As of October 5, 2005, Arianespace described the mission as its fourth flight of the year and stated it would place two communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit: Syracuse 3A and Galaxy 15.
As of September 28, 2005, the next Ariane 5 launch carrying Syracuse 3A and Galaxy 15 was scheduled for the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2005.
Galaxy 15 was a communications satellite for the American satcom operator PanAmSat.
As of September 28, 2005, the Ariane 5 Generic vehicle was assigned to orbit the Syracuse 3A and Galaxy 15 satellites on the October 13, 2005 mission.
The launch readiness review (RAL) for the Syracuse 3A/Galaxy 15 flight took place in Kourou on October 11, 2005 and authorized countdown operations for the flight.