Payload
AFRICASAT-1 (MEASAT-1)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
AFRICASAT-1 (MEASAT-1) is a Malaysia payload satellite, launched on January 12, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 12, 1996 at 11:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- PAS 3R & MEASAT 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,149 km
- Periapsis
- 36,111 km
- Inclination
- 12.42°
- Orbital period
- 1453.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Malaysia
- Launch mass
- 831.52 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-002B
- NORAD catalog №
- 23765
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Malaysia- Radar cross-section
- 9.7037 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational