Communications
EUTELSAT 16C
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 17, 2000 at 09:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Sesat
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,175 km
- Periapsis
- 36,144 km
- Inclination
- 10.88°
- Orbital period
- 1455.21 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-019A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26243
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 0.003 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational