Skynet 5B 52.8E

[Kveys]

New satellite here (52.E). Wikipedia says military communications satellite operated by Astrium Services formerly Paradigm Secure Communications on behalf of the British Ministry of Defence . Only datachannels, so nothing to watch but in curiosity anyway. Partly very strong here in Finland.

Source: Flysat.


Edit: typo

 

[hvdh]

Skynet 5B is not new at 52.75 East, has been around since 2008.
Skynet 5D, launched in December 2012, arrived about a week ago near this position.

But anyway, unless a super-secret C-band payload is revealing now, the Skynets are supposed to only have UHF and X-band downlinks!

Probably this is just Yahsat 1A at 52.5 East, some of the Flysat listed frequencies were reported already here:
http://www.dishworld.de/thread.php?threadid=3104&page=3

 

[Kveys]

Skynet 5B is not new at 52.75 East, has been around since 2008.

Think everyone knows that but "new catch" for me and probably "new" in here.

Dont know where Flysat got own information but sure Yahsat sounds reasonable too. Satbeams.com says Yahsat C-band global beam EIRP would be 37dBW here and that sounds also fine vs my dish size.

Its not accurate anyway but my Moteck and its scale shows rather 52E than 53E location for this. That defent Yahsat also more but hope we will get some other thoughts from others..?

 

[pride21]

hi kveys i pick up skynet 5B the only transponder that locks is 4044R 7955 at 44% quality there are a few others at 70% but will not lock.