Payload
ARABSAT-1B
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ARABSAT-1B is a Arabsat payload satellite, launched on June 17, 1985 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 17, 1985 at 11:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-G
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,806 km
- Periapsis
- 35,682 km
- Inclination
- 12.38°
- Orbital period
- 1433.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Arabsat
- Launch mass
- 778 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-048C
- NORAD catalog №
- 15825
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Arabsat- Radar cross-section
- 3.9211 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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