Communications
EUTELSAT 4B
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 9, 1998 at 10:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Hot Bird 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,373 km
- Periapsis
- 36,234 km
- Inclination
- 10.51°
- Orbital period
- 1462.58 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25495
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 7.1433 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational