Payload
ARABSAT-4A
DecayedPayloadMEO
ARABSAT-4A is a Arabsat payload satellite, launched on February 28, 2006 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 28, 2006 at 08:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Arabsat 4A
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 14,684 km
- Periapsis
- 497 km
- Inclination
- 51.56°
- Orbital period
- 273.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Arabsat
- Launch mass
- 3,341 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28943
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Arabsat- Radar cross-section
- 6.9759 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 24, 2006
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 24, 2006
- Time in service
- 24 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed