Payload
CAT 4
NonoperationalPayloadHEO
CAT 4 is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on December 20, 1981 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 20, 1981 at 01:29 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 1 →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Marecs 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 25,111 km
- Periapsis
- 241 km
- Inclination
- 10.46°
- Orbital period
- 436.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 661 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-122B
- NORAD catalog №
- 13011
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 2.6809 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational