Payload
ALPHASAT
OperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 25, 2013 at 07:54 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Alphasat I-XL (Inmarsat-XL) & INSAT-3D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,794 km
- Periapsis
- 35,780 km
- Inclination
- 3°
- Orbital period
- 1436.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- INMARSAT, Ltd./European Space Agency (ESA)
- Manufacturer
- Astrium
- Users
- Government/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 6,650 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,370 kg
- Power
- 12,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 39215
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Isle of Man
- Radar cross-section
- 16.3096 m²
- Status
- Operational
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