Space AtlasAFRICASAT-2 (MEASAT-2)
NORAD 24653 · Payload · In orbit since 1996
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1996-11-13 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- MALA (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 882 kg
- Size
- 7.8 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,938 × 35,981 km
- Inclination
- 12.3°
- Period
- 1444.6 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.