Payload
ASTRA 5B
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 22, 2014 at 10:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- ASTRA 5B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,794 km
- Periapsis
- 35,779 km
- Inclination
- 0.05°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- EADS Astrium
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,724 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-011B
- NORAD catalog №
- 39617
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 21.6238 m²
- Status
- Operational
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