Communications
EUTELSAT 36 WEST A
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 28, 2002 at 10:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Atlantic Bird 1 & Meteosat 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,383 km
- Periapsis
- 36,319 km
- Inclination
- 7.27°
- Orbital period
- 1465.03 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27508
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 179.7695 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational