Payload
ARABSAT-2A
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ARABSAT-2A is a Arabsat payload satellite, launched on July 9, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 9, 1996 at 10:24 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Arabsat IIA & Türksat 1C
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,094 km
- Periapsis
- 36,071 km
- Inclination
- 14.25°
- Orbital period
- 1451.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Arabsat
- Launch mass
- 1,556 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23948
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Arabsat- Radar cross-section
- 6.317 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational