Communications
EUTELSAT 48A
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
EUTELSAT 48A is a Eutelsat communications satellite, launched on November 21, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 21, 1996 at 08:47 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Hot Bird 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,346 km
- Periapsis
- 36,304 km
- Inclination
- 11.95°
- Orbital period
- 1463.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Eutelsat
- Launch mass
- 2,886.03 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24665
- 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