Payload
CAT 3
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
CAT 3 is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on June 19, 1981 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 19, 1981 at 12:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 1 →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Meteosat 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 17,941 km
- Periapsis
- 247 km
- Inclination
- 10.1°
- Orbital period
- 319.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 266 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-057C
- NORAD catalog №
- 12546
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 2.0458 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational