Payload
BADR-3 (ARABSAT-3A)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
BADR-3 (ARABSAT-3A) is a Arabsat payload satellite, launched on February 26, 1999 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 26, 1999 at 10:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Arabsat 3A & Skynet 4E
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,840 km
- Periapsis
- 35,793 km
- Inclination
- 11.93°
- Orbital period
- 1437.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Arabsat
- Launch mass
- 2,708 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25638
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Arabsat- Radar cross-section
- 7.9433 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational