Weather
INSAT-3B
NonoperationalWeatherGEO
INSAT-3B is a India weather satellite, launched on March 21, 2000 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 21, 2000 at 11:28 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- INSAT-3B & AsiaStar
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,980 km
- Periapsis
- 35,939 km
- Inclination
- 10.85°
- Orbital period
- 1444.93 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 2,070 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-016B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26108
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 5.0119 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational