Weather
INSAT-2B
NonoperationalWeatherGEO
INSAT-2B is a India weather satellite, launched on July 22, 1993 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 22, 1993 at 10:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Hispasat 1B & Insat 2B
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,936 km
- Periapsis
- 35,806 km
- Inclination
- 14.45°
- Orbital period
- 1440.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 1,176.41 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-048B
- NORAD catalog №
- 22724
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 19.9526 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational