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Payload / Mission

Anik F1R

Type
Navigation
Orbit
Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

It carried a 24 C-band and 32 Ku-band transponders. Anik F1R has a design life of 15 years. In addition, a Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS-GEO 4) navigation package operating in C-band for uplink and L-band for downlink provides precision Global Positioning System-based guidance information to aircraft.