Payload
MAQSAT 3 & ARIANE 5 R/B
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MAQSAT 3 & ARIANE 5 R/B is a France payload satellite, launched on October 21, 1998 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 21, 1998 at 04:37 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Mission
- MaqSat 3 & ARD
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,521 km
- Periapsis
- 986 km
- Inclination
- 7.14°
- Orbital period
- 641.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 3,920 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25503
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 28.886 m²
- Status
- active