Hot Bird 6
Atlas V 401
Lockheed Martin
Mission
Hot Bird 6
Type: Communications
Eutelsat 8 West C, known as Hot Bird 6 prior to 2012 and Hot Bird 13A from 2012 to 2013, is a French communications satellite. Operated by Eutelsat, it provides direct to home broadcasting services from geostationary orbit.
Trajectory
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Location
Space Launch Complex 41
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
877 rockets have launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, USA.
Rocket
Atlas V 401 – United Launch Alliance
- Family: Atlas
- Length: 58.3 m
- Diameter: 3.8 m
- Launch Mass: 590 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 9050 kg
The Atlas V 401 was manufactured by United Launch Alliance with the first launch on 2002-08-21. Atlas V 401 has 41 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 41 launches. An Atlas V with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no boosters and a single centaur upper stage engine.
Agency
Lockheed Martin – LMT
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: LMT
- Founded: 1953
- Launchers: Titan | Agena
- Spacecraft: Hubble | JUNO | InSight
- Country: USA
Lockheed Martin’s Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM’s in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA’s return to the moon in 2024.
