Space AtlasOPTUS A3 (AUSSAT 3)
NORAD 18350 · Payload · In orbit since 1987
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1987-09-16 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- AUS (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 653 kg
- Size
- 6.6 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,154 × 36,195 km
- Inclination
- 14.4°
- Period
- 1455.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0005
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.