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... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''Anik D2'''''
Image = Image:AnikD.jpg 200px Organization = National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States), ... Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Anik%20D2 Here Carrier_Rocket = Shuttle Telesat-H (Anik D2) was a Canadian communications satellite deployed by the STS 51-A ...

Image:Anik1_Delta.jpg 300px Delta launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral carrying Anik 1 satellite.

... , Europe's largest space company, to manufacture a replacement for its Anik F1 satellite~ the Anik F1R . Engineers had determined that the Anik F1 , based on the 702 platform of Boeing Satellite Systems, was ... to base the Anik F1R , which would carry 24 C-band and 32 Ku-band transponders, on Astrium's Eurostar 3000 platform. (Telesat, “Telesat Selects European Manufacturer for New Anik F Satellite,” news ...

... MORs 6 May 75, 15 May 75; NASA Releases 75-101, 75-121) Canada's Anik 3 (Telesat-3) domestic communications satellite was launched by NASA at 7:35 pin EDT ... for brother) 3 was third in a series of Canadian domestic comsats; Anik 1 (launched 9 Nov. 1972) and Anik 2 (launched 20 April 1973) were operating at 114° and 109° west ... 000 solar cells and enough battery capacity to maintain full service during a solar eclipse. Anik had 13 channels that could transmit up to 10 color TV transmissions or 9600 telephone ...

... into synchronous orbit, and it was maneuvered to a station 104°W above the equator. Anik D , weighing 2,370 pounds at liftoff, was the heaviest payload launched into transfer orbit ... record. The 24-channel communications satellite would provide Canada with television, data, and voice communications. Anik D was Canada's tenth satellite and fifth in a series of domestic commercial communications ...

... from Eastern Test Range on three-stage, long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta launch vehicle. Anik 1 was placed in highly elliptical transfer orbit with apogee of 36 470 km (22 ... South America. Under contract between NASA and Telesat Canada, NASA mission objective was to place Anik l in orbit of sufficient accuracy to allow onboard propulsion systems to place spacecraft in ... thrust-augmentation rockets from Cape Kennedy . Third stage was TE-364-4 solid-fueled motor. Anik 1 -first of two-was built by Hughes Aircraft Co. under contract with Telesat and ...

... of South America. Under NASA-Telesat Canada contract, the NASA mission objective was to place Anik 2 into an orbit of sufficient accuracy to allow the spacecraft propulsion systems to place ... ­time requirements. The objective was met and the mission was adjudged a success April 30. Anik 2 -second in a series of Canadian domestic communications satellites-was built by Hughes Aircraft ...

... by NASA for Telesat/Canada, which owned and operated the satellites. Telesat-D would replace Anik A1 , launched in Nov. 1972 and positioned at 109°W over the equator south of ... gather data on signal propagation and on power generation and usage. NASA planned to launch Anik-C1 and -C2 spacecraft (Telesat-E and -F) on the Space Shuttle in 1981, to replace Anik A2 and A3 (Telesat B and C) launched in April 1973 and May 1975, respectively ...

NASA announced signing of agreements with Telesat Canada for launch of five Anik Communications satellites, four on the Shuttle and one on a Delta. The launches would cost ... million; the spacecraft would be worth about $130 million. The third-and fourth-generation Anik C and Anik D communications satellites would be the backbone of Canada's system until the 1990s ... launched in August from KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ; the next Telesat launch would be an Anik C , one of two communications satellites scheduled for the Shuttle's fifth flight and first ...

... imaging. Two communications satellites, Intelsat-IV F-7 for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization and Anik 2 Canadian domestic comsat, were successfully launched, as well as Nnss 0-20 Transit navigational ... ; NASA SP-5119; NASA Release 73-281)'' In its program of international cooperation, NASA launched Anik 2 domes-tic communications satellite for Telesat Canada and Intelsat-IV F-7 for Communications ...

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