Payload
TELECOM 2A
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
TELECOM 2A is a France payload satellite, launched on December 16, 1991 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 1991 at 11:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Telecom 2A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,165 km
- Periapsis
- 36,156 km
- Inclination
- 14.61°
- Orbital period
- 1455.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 1,367.69 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-084A
- NORAD catalog №
- 21813
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 12.5892 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational