ABS1 Ku Band

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) owns and operates the ABS-1 satellite (formerly known as LMI-1) at the 75E location serving 4/5th of the world's population and 4 continents. Headquartered in Hong Kong, ABS serves a global customer base with representative offices in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America.

The ABS-1 satellite is a high-powered Lockheed Martin A2100 AX spacecraft which was launched from a Proton on September 1999 from Baikonur. With on-board fuel for more than 17 remaining years of life, the ABS-1 satellite is located in the prime Indian Ocean region at 75E connecting Asia, Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, CIS, Middle East, Europe and Africa. The satellite has 44 transponders composed of 16 Ku-band and 28 C-band transponders.

ABS 1 on Ku Band

Numbers of Transponders

16

Transponders Bandwidth

27MHz

Uplink / Downlink Signal Polarization

Linear / Horizontal and Vertical

Cross-Polar Discrimation

30dB

EIRP Inside Service Area
(edge and peak value)

34 to 49.5 dBW (Northern Beam)

41 to 52 dBW (Southern Beam)

TWTA Size

90 Watts (Northern Beam)

90 and 135 Watts (Southern Beam)

TWTA Redundancy

2 group of 11 for 8

Receiver Redundancy

4 for 2