Payload
ASTRA 1B
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ASTRA 1B is a SES payload satellite, launched on March 2, 1991 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 2, 1991 at 11:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44LP →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Astra 1B & Meteosat 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,330 km
- Periapsis
- 36,246 km
- Inclination
- 13.36°
- Orbital period
- 1461.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES
- Launch mass
- 1,548.07 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21139
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 8.6808 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational