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EUTELSAT 48A

NORAD 24665 · Payload · In orbit since 1996

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Launched
1996-11-21 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
EUTE (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
2,910 kg
Size
4 × 2.5 m · 27.9 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
36,296 × 36,354 km
Inclination
12.0°
Period
1463.3 min
Eccentricity
0.0007
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.