Geostationary
EUTELSAT 53A
Central Asian / Indian Ocean C-band Communications · Eutelsat
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A Eutelsat satellite at 53°E providing C-band capacity for broadcasting and enterprise communications across Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Eastern Africa. Eutelsat-53A's C-band footprint covers some of the world's most geographically diverse and challenging connectivity environments — from Kazakhstan's steppes to India's Deccan Plateau to the Horn of Africa — where its wide-area coverage reaches users that more focused spot-beam satellites cannot serve.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,237–22,247 mi (35,786–35,803 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 40277
- Int’l designator
- 2014-064A
- Launched
- 2014
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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