Payload
SKYNET 4C
OperationalPayloadGEO
SKYNET 4C is a Intelsat/Paradigm Secure Communications (wholly owned by EADS Astrium) payload satellite, launched on August 30, 1990 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 30, 1990 at 10:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44LP →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Skynet 4C & Eutelsat-2 F1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,796 km
- Periapsis
- 35,776 km
- Inclination
- 13.34°
- Orbital period
- 1436.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Intelsat/Paradigm Secure Communications (wholly owned by EADS Astrium)
- Manufacturer
- Astrium
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 782.95 kg
- Dry mass
- 850 kg
- Power
- 1,200 W
- Design lifetime
- 7 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-079A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20776
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 11.1055 m²
- Status
- Operational