Payload
GSAT0002 (GIOVE-B)
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
GSAT0002 (GIOVE-B) is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on April 26, 2008 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 26, 2008 at 10:16 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-FG Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Giove-B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 23,833 km
- Periapsis
- 23,815 km
- Inclination
- 59.99°
- Orbital period
- 870.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 530 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 32781
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 4.8855 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational