Space AtlasOPTUS B3
NORAD 23227 · Payload · In orbit since 1994
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1994-08-27 · Xichang, China
- Country / operator
- AUS (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,858 kg
- Size
- 2.3 × 2.3 m · 20.6 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,210 × 36,257 km
- Inclination
- 12.4°
- Period
- 1458.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0006
- 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.