Payload
ABS-3
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ABS-3 is a Asia Broadcast Satellite payload satellite, launched on August 19, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 1997 at 05:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 3B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Mission
- Agila 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,076 km
- Periapsis
- 36,066 km
- Inclination
- 11.19°
- Orbital period
- 1450.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Asia Broadcast Satellite
- Launch mass
- 2,537.17 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-042A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24901
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Asia Broadcast Satellite
- Radar cross-section
- 10 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational