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Intelsat 16
Spacecraft properties

Mission type	Communications
Operator	Intelsat
COSPAR ID	2010-006A
SATCAT no.	36397
Mission duration	15 years


Bus	Star-2.4
Manufacturer	Orbital Sciences
Launch mass	2,056 kilograms (4,533 lb)


Start of mission
Launch date	12 February 2010, 00:39:40 (2010-02-12UTC00:39:40Z) UTC
Rocket	Proton-M/Briz-M
Launch site	Baikonur 200/39
Contractor	International Launch Services


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Geostationary
Longitude	58° west
Perigee altitude	35,781 kilometres (22,233 mi)
Apogee altitude	35,803 kilometres (22,247 mi)
Inclination	0.01 degrees
Period	23.93 hours
Epoch	24 December 2013, 12:13:29 UTC


Transponders
Band	24 Ku-band
Bandwidth	36 MHz
Coverage area	Mexico Brazil

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Intelsat 16 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat planned to be located at 58°W.L. It was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, on a Star-2.4 bus. Intelsat 16 was formerly known as PAS-11R. It was launched on February 12, 2010 by ILS Proton-M launch vehicle.

The Intelsat 16 (IS-16) satellite was manufactured for Intelsat to provide Direct-To-Home (DTH) transponder capacity for DirecTV subsidiaries. The satellite included 24 Ku band transponders for use over Brazil for Sky Brasil at 43.1 degrees West Longitude or for capacity coverage over Mexico and Gulf of Mexico regions at 58 degrees West Longitude.

References

"INTELSAT 16 Satellite details 2010-006A NORAD 36397". N2YO. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.
Lung, Doug (February 18, 2010). "Intelsat 16 Launched Successfully". tvtech.com. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
Krebs, Gunter D. "Intelsat 16 (IS 16)". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved February 9, 2023.

v t e ← 2009 Orbital launches in 2010 2011 →
January	Compass-G1 Globus-1M No.12L
February	Progress M-04M STS-130 (Tranquility, Cupola) SDO Intelsat 16
March	Kosmos 2459 / GLONASS-M 731, Kosmos 2460 / GLONASS-M 732, Kosmos 2461 / GLONASS-M 735 GOES-15 / EWS-G2 Yaogan 9A, Yaogan 9B, Yaogan 9C EchoStar XIV
April	Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 (Leonardo MPLM) CryoSat-2 GSAT-4 Kosmos 2462 USA-212 SES-1 Kosmos 2463 Progress M-05M
May	STS-132 (Rassvet, ICC-VLD) Akatsuki, IKAROS (DCAM-1, DCAM-2), Shin'en, Waseda-SAT2, Hayato, Negai ☆'' Astra 3B, COMSATBw-2 USA-213
June	SERVIS-2 Compass-G3 Badr-5 Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit STSAT-2B Shijian XII Prisma, Picard, BPA-1 Soyuz TMA-19 TanDEM-X Ofek-9 Arabsat-5A, Chollian Progress M-06M
July	EchoStar XV Cartosat-2B, AlSat-2A, StudSat, AISSat-1, TIsat-1 Compass-IGSO1
August	Nilesat 201, RASCOM-QAF 1R Yaogan 10 USA-214 Tian Hui 1
September	Kosmos 2464, Kosmos 2465, Kosmos 2466 Chinasat-6A Gonets-M No.2, Kosmos 2467, Kosmos 2468 Progress M-07M Michibiki USA-215 Yaogan 11, Zheda Pixing 1B, Zheda Pixing 1C USA-216 Kosmos 2469
October	Chang'e 2 Shijian 6G, Shijian 6H Soyuz TMA-01M XM-5 Globalstar 73, Globalstar 74, Globalstar 75, Globalstar 76, Globalstar 77, Globalstar 79 Progress M-08M Eutelsat W3B, BSat 3B Compass-G4
November	Meridian 3 Fengyun 3B COSMO-4 SkyTerra-1 STPSat-2, USA-220 / FASTSAT (NanoSail-D2), USA-221 / FalconSat-5, USA-222 / FASTRAC-1, USA-222 / FASTRAC-2, USA-218 / RAX, USA-219 / O/OREOS USA-223 / Orion 7 Chinasat 20A Intelsat 17, HYLAS-1
December	Glonass-M No.39, Glonass-M No.40, Glonass-M No.41 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1, Mayflower, SMDC-ONE 1, QbX-1, QbX-2, Perseus 000, Perseus 001, Perseus 002, Perseus 003 Soyuz TMA-20 Compass-IGSO2 GSAT-5P KA-SAT
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).

v t e Intelsat Corporation
COMSAT Intelsat Americas PanAmSat ITSO STS-49 List of Intelsat satellites
Intelsat I, II, III	Intelsat I Intelsat II F-1 II F-2 II F-3 II F-4 Intelsat III F-1 III F-2 III F-3 III F-4 III F-5 III F-6 III F-7 III F-8
Intelsat IV	Intelsat IV F-1 IV F-2 IV F-3 IV F-4 IV F-5 IV F-6 IV F-7 IV F-8 IVA F-1 IVA F-2 IVA F-3 IVA F-4 IVA F-5 IVA F-6
Intelsat V	Intelsat V F-1 V F-2 V F-3 V F-4 V F-5 V F-6 V F-7 V F-8 V F-9† VA F-10 VA F-11 VA F-12 VA F-13 VA F-14 VA F-15
Intelsat VI	Intelsat 601 602 603 604 605
Intelsat 7-10	Intelsat 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 801 802 803 804 805 806 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 10-02
ex-PanAmSat	Intelsat 1R 2 3R 4 5 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12
Recent Intelsat	Intelsat 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (New Dawn) 29e 30 31 32e 33e 34 35e 36 37e 38 39 40e
Galaxy (Intelsat Americas)	Galaxy 3C 4R 5 9 10R 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 23 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
Other	APR-1 APR-2 Horizons-1 Horizons-2 Horizons-3e Intelsat K Marisat-F2 SBS 6

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