Payload
HELIOS 2B
DecayedPayloadLEO
HELIOS 2B is a Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/Dlgation Gnrale de l'Armement (DGA) payload satellite, launched on December 18, 2009 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 18, 2009 at 04:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 GS →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Helios 2B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 149 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 98.16°
- Orbital period
- 87.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)/Dlgation Gnrale de l'Armement (DGA)
- Manufacturer
- EADS Astrium
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 4,200 kg
- Power
- 2,900 W
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-073A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36124
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 14, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 14, 2023
- Time in service
- 14.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed