Payload
OPTUS A3 (AUSSAT 3)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
OPTUS A3 (AUSSAT 3) is a Australia payload satellite, launched on September 16, 1987 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 16, 1987 at 02:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Proton K/DM-2 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Uragan 20 to 22
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,199 km
- Periapsis
- 36,149 km
- Inclination
- 14.39°
- Orbital period
- 1455.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Australia
- Launch mass
- 649.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1987-078A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18350
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 15.8489 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational