Payload
ASTRA 5A (SIRIUS 2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 12, 1997 at 09:48 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Sirius 2 & Indostar 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,048 km
- Periapsis
- 36,017 km
- Inclination
- 12°
- Orbital period
- 1448.66 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25049
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Sweden- Radar cross-section
- 31.6228 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational