Communications
INMARSAT 4-F3
OperationalCommunicationsGEONORAD 33278
INMARSAT 4-F3 is a INMARSAT, Ltd. communications satellite, launched on August 18, 2008 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Inmarsat 4 F3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,799 km
- Periapsis
- 35,775 km
- Inclination
- 4.29°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- INMARSAT, Ltd.
- Manufacturer
- EADS Astrium
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,958 kg
- Power
- 13,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
- Dimensions
- 7 × 2.9 × 2.9 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-039A
- NORAD catalog №
- 33278
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Isle of Man
- Radar cross-section
- 12.6191 m²
- Status
- Operational