Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Eutelsat 4A previously Eurobird 4A and Eutelsat W1 is a French communications satellite which is operated by Eutelsat. It was constructed by Astrium is based on the Eurostar-2000+ satellite bus. Its launch was contracted by Arianespace using an Ariane 4 44P-3 carrier rocket. The launch occurred on 6 September 2000 at 22:33 UTC from ELA-2 at the Guiana Space Centre.It was originally built as Orion 2 for Orion Network Systems.