Payload
ASTRA 2D
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ASTRA 2D is a SES S.A. payload satellite, launched on December 20, 2000 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 20, 2000 at 12:26 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Astra 2D & GE-8, LDREX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,153 km
- Periapsis
- 36,141 km
- Inclination
- 10.46°
- Orbital period
- 1454.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Space and Communications Co.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,414 kg
- Dry mass
- 700 kg
- Power
- 1,500 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26638
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
SES- Radar cross-section
- 0.6797 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational