Payload
GSAT-3 (EDUSAT)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 28417
GSAT-3 (EDUSAT) is a India payload satellite, launched on September 20, 2004 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 20, 2004 at 10:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Satish Dhawan / Sriharikota, India
- Launched by
- GSLV →
- Operator
- Indian Space Research Organization
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,082 km
- Periapsis
- 36,059 km
- Inclination
- 11.35°
- Orbital period
- 1450.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- India
- Launch mass
- 1,950 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.4 × 1.6 × 1.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-036A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28417
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
India- Radar cross-section
- 4.6034 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational