Arabsat BADR-8

[2night]

Great, with EMENA footprints!

but also with emena beams for western europe

 

[satelliclub]

BREAKING NEWS
ARABSAT 7B - BADR 8 HAS DISAPPEARED IN THE TRACKING WEBSITES AND SATELLITE IS NOT AVELABLE IN SOME OF THE WEBSITES
EX:SATVIEW DONE ME THE SATELLITE NOT FOUND
CAUSES OF THE SATELLITE'S DISAPEARECY IS UNKNOWN IN HERE MOMENTS....
POSSIBLE CAUSES:THE CONTACT TO TERRESTRIAL CONTROL CENTER HAS DOWN TO THESATELLITE...

 

[Marcus_21]

I have just intercepted the two telemetry signals (11197,00 LHCP and 11202,50 RHCP), around 41°E... it should be remembered that the satellite is not yet in geostationary orbit, but in elliptical orbit, so it does not have a specific position.

 

[hvdh]

@satelliclub LOL you sure love drama!
It's just a partial outage of Spacetrak data and Badr-8 is one of them.
Check this page, the dip in valid GPEs:

CelesTrak: GPE Statistics

 

[Analoguesat]

@satelliclub

OK knock off the fake news. You should know better than posting ridiculous "breaking news" stories about satellites. We have explained over & over again that the tracking sites are unreliable for any number of reasons. If you want a reliable source of where the moving satellites are our collegue @Marcus_21 kindly finds out for us. Please dont do it again.

 

[solly]

badr8 it look 23.5e

 

[solly]

N2yo write location 21 5e

 

[Marcus_21]

From the latest checks of the telemetry signals (11197,00 LHCP and 11202,50 RHCP), it seems that it has reached geostationary orbit around 27°E... I will carry out further checks in the next few hours....

 

[solly]

any signal from mena beam ?

 

[Marcus_21]

After all the checks carried out in the last few hours, I can confirm that it is around 27°E.
For now the TLEs are not correct, they report it in the wrong location.

These are the telemetry signals:

11197,00 LHCP


11202,50 RHCP

 

[william-1]

Footprints for Badr-8

https://www.arabsat.com/the-fleet/26east/badr-8/

 

[william-1]

Badr-8 @ 26E
Ku-band DOWNLINK FOOTPRINTS
FSS-MENA = Middle East, North Africa
FSS-EMENA = Europe,Middle East, North Africa
BSS-MENA = Middle East, North Africa
BSS-EMENA = Europe,Middle East, North Africa
BSS-N_WEST AFRICA
BSS-C.ASIA
C-band (Global) Beam Downlink

https://www.arabsat.com/the-fleet/26east/badr-8/

 

[william-1]

Badr-8 is designed to replace and expand Arabsat’s C-band and Ku-band capacity across Europe, Middle East, Africa, and central Asia over its 15-year design life.

Arabsat 7B (Badr 8)

Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the worldÂs top satellite operators, to build Badr-8, their new generation telecommunications satell...

space.skyrocket.de

 

[satesco]

Footprints for Badr-8

https://www.arabsat.com/the-fleet/26east/badr-8/

Without wishing to interpret Badr-8's map politically, the one posted by William-1, the coverage on the western side of Europe seems to favor the area most sought after by immigrants from Africa and the Middle East.
When you think how hard it is to get a useful signal from the MENA spot! It's a good thing there are such gateways for those in Europe who want to receive from that part of the continent.
Of course, my subjective observation is off-topic. It can be deleted if it is considered as such.

 

[william-1]

Arabsat 7B (Badr 8)

Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the worldÂs top satellite operators, to build Badr-8, their new generation telecommunications satell...

space.skyrocket.de

https://www.flysat.com/en/satinfo/badr-6

https://www.flysat.com/en/satinfo/badr-4

An estimate of the Badr-8 transponders 80 Ku band & 40 C band

Nothing found on line atm if anyone knows better then please let us know.

 

[william-1]

BADR-8 will also include the innovative Airbus developed TELEO optical communications payload demonstrator. This payload will enable very high capacity analogue optical feeder link communications, as part of the development by Airbus of a new generation of optical communications technology in space to be integrated in its future commercial products, which is highly robust against jamming.

Khalid Balkheyour, President/CEO of Arabsat said: “BADR-8 satellite will be joining our Badr-network at Arabsat 26° East hotspot. BADR-8 will carry massive satellite transponders for satellite TV broadcasting, satellite telecommunications and information exchanging services in Ku-band / C– band that will enhance Arabsat’s satellite fleet capacities and ensure updated and developed services for years to come,
reinforcing Arabsat leading role in the Middle East for satellite TV broadcasting & satellite telecoms. Arabsat’s investment in BADR-8 will reach about $300 million including launch, insurance and ground infrastructures.”

 

[william-1]

BADR-8 will carry massive satellite transponders for satellite TV broadcasting,
So my estimate for Badr-8 transponders maybe wrong ?

Maybe Badr-8 has 160 Ku band & 40 C band trandponders

We will have to wait & see.

 

[william-1]

26°E Updated some info.

Badr-4 launched 8th November 2006 (launched as Arabsat-4b (low on fuel now)
Badr 6 launched 7th July 2008 now inclined orbit 0.3°
Badr-5 launched 3rd June 2010
Badr-7 launched 10th November 2015
Badr-8 launched 27th May 2023

 

[Satfaca]

BADR -5 is Arabsat 5b
BADR-7 is Arabsat 6b
BADR -8 is Arabsat 7b

 

[Marcus_21]

They switched the width of the telemetry signals at around 200kHz to around 600kHz. The same operation had been carried out on the Hotbird 13F and 13G satellites, which are based on the same platform (Eurostar-Neo). Where during the LEOP phase they used lower bandwidth.

This is further confirmation that it has reached geostationary orbit.

Currently the signals are still in circular polarity....