Payload
CIEL-2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
CIEL-2 is a Ciel Satellite Group payload satellite, launched on December 10, 2008 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 10, 2008 at 01:43 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Ciel 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,192 km
- Periapsis
- 36,089 km
- Inclination
- 2.78°
- Orbital period
- 1454.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ciel Satellite Group
- Manufacturer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,625 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 33453
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 10.0237 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational