Payload
ARABSAT-1D (ANIK D2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 8, 1984 at 12:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,284 km
- Periapsis
- 36,063 km
- Inclination
- 13.59°
- Orbital period
- 1455.9 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-113B
- NORAD catalog №
- 15383
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Arabsat- Radar cross-section
- 6.2735 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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