Payload
ANIK B1 (TELESAT 4)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ANIK B1 (TELESAT 4) is a Canada payload satellite, launched on December 16, 1978 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 1978 at 12:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Anik B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,989 km
- Periapsis
- 35,845 km
- Inclination
- 9.51°
- Orbital period
- 1442.77 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Canada
- Launch mass
- 469.77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-116A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11153
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 7.2712 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational