Communications
EUTELSAT 48C
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
EUTELSAT 48C is a Eutelsat communications satellite, launched on April 12, 1999 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 12, 1999 at 10:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Eutelsat W3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,339 km
- Periapsis
- 36,282 km
- Inclination
- 10.54°
- Orbital period
- 1462.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Eutelsat
- Launch mass
- 3,177 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25673
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 19.3308 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational