Payload
HIPPARCOS
NonoperationalPayloadHEO
HIPPARCOS is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on August 8, 1989 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 8, 1989 at 11:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44LP →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- TV-Sat 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,746 km
- Periapsis
- 494 km
- Inclination
- 7.19°
- Orbital period
- 636.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 1,130 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1989-062B
- NORAD catalog №
- 20169
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 9.1576 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational