Payload
ASTRA 1G
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ASTRA 1G is a SES S.A. payload satellite, launched on December 2, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 2, 1997 at 11:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Astra 1G
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,165 km
- Periapsis
- 36,107 km
- Inclination
- 9.49°
- Orbital period
- 1453.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Space and Communications Co.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,279.48 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,010 kg
- Power
- 6,600 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25071
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 1.138 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational