Maxar announced that Star One D2 arrived at the Arianespace launch facility in French Guiana in June 2021.
Star One D2 carries C-, Ku-, Ka- and X-band transponders for telecommunications and broadcast services.
Star One D2 has a launch mass of approximately 6,200 kg.
Star One D2 is a 6,200-kilogram satellite ordered from SSL in October for a 2019 launch that will carry commercial C-, Ku- and Ka-band transponders and a military X-band payload.
The Ariane 5 upper stage deployed the Star One D2 satellite 30 minutes after liftoff into a geostationary transfer orbit.
Star One D2 will operate from 70 degrees west in geostationary orbit.
The Ariane 5 upper stage deployed the Eutelsat Quantum satellite six minutes after deploying Star One D2 into a geostationary transfer orbit.
Star One D2 was built on Maxar’s 1300-class platform at Maxar’s Palo Alto, California manufacturing facility.
Ariane 5 launched the Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum communications satellites on 2021-07-30, from Kourou, French Guiana, marking Ariane 5’s first flight in nearly a year.