Atlantic Bird is the name for a set of satellites operated by Eutelsat operating over the Atlantic Ocean.
Two of the original three satellites replaced the France Telecom Telecom 2 series satellites which Eutelsat had acquired in 1999.
Five satellites are in operation as of 2006:
- Atlantic Bird 1, operating at 12.5°W
- Atlantic Bird 2, operating at 8°W (Replaced Telecom 2A)
- Atlantic Bird 3, a Spacebus 3000B3, operating at 5°W (Replaced Telecom 2C)
- Atlantic Bird 4, operated at 7°W (Formerly Hot Bird 4, also known as Nilesat 103)
- Atlantic Bird 7, operating at 7°W
Famous quotes containing the words atlantic and/or bird:
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
““... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)