LaunchesTempo 2
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Tempo 2
Atlas IIA · Communications
1997Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The Tempo 1 and 2 satellites can transmit more than 200 channels of high-fidelity broadcast programming to cable companies and home dishes. Tempo has twice the power and capacity of comparable satellites. It features 32 high-powered Ku-band transponders at 115 Watts, switchable to 16 transpondersders at 220 Watts. Total on-board transmitter power totals 3500 Watts.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Lockheed Martin
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 36A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2