SIRIUS 3
NORAD 25492 · Payload · In orbit since 1998
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1998-10-05 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- SES (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 790 kg
- Size
- 7.8 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,128 × 36,147 km
- Inclination
- 11.8°
- Period
- 1453.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002
- 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.