Payload
HYLAS 2
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 2, 2012 at 08:54 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Intelsat 20 & HYLAS 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,797 km
- Periapsis
- 35,776 km
- Inclination
- 2.41°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Avanti Communications, PLC
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,311 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,532 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-043B
- NORAD catalog №
- 38741
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 5.0119 m²
- Status
- Operational
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