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STAR Bus is a satellite platform developed by Thomas van der Heyden co-founder of CTAI, later sold to and manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation with an apogee kick motor to place a communications satellite into geostationary orbit, a thruster to provide the satellite with orbital station-keeping for a 15 year mission, and solar arrays to provide the satellite payload with 5 kW^{[citation needed]} of electrical power.

Also see STAR-2.

History

The first satellite program based on the STAR Bus platform, developed by Thomas van der Heyden for the Indonesian Direct Broadcast program IndoVision, was IndoStar-1, which was launched in November 1997.^{[citation needed]}

References

"Commercial GEO Satellites". Orbital Sciences.
"STAR Bus Fact Sheet" (PDF). Orbital Sciences.

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-'''STAR Bus''' is a [[Satellite bus|satellite platform]] manufactured by [[Orbital Sciences Corporation]] with an [[apogee kick motor]] to place a [[communications satellite]] into [[geostationary orbit]], a thruster to provide the satellite with [[orbital station-keeping]] for a 15 year mission, and [[Solar panels on spacecraft|solar array]]s to provide the satellite payload with 5&nbsp;kW{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} of electrical power.
+'''STAR Bus''' is a [[Satellite bus|satellite platform]] developed by Thomas van der Heyden co-founder of CTAI, later sold to and manufactured by [[Orbital Sciences Corporation]] with an [[apogee kick motor]] to place a [[communications satellite]] into [[geostationary orbit]], a thruster to provide the satellite with [[orbital station-keeping]] for a 15 year mission, and [[Solar panels on spacecraft|solar array]]s to provide the satellite payload with 5&nbsp;kW{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}} of electrical power.
 Also see [[STAR-2]].
 ==History==
-The first satellite based on the STAR Bus platform was [[IndoStar-1]], which was launched in November 1997.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
+The first satellite program based on the STAR Bus platform, developed by Thomas van der Heyden for the Indonesian Direct Broadcast program IndoVision, was [[IndoStar-1]], which was launched in November 1997.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}
 {{Expand section|date=February 2011}}