Payload
MAQSAT & ARIANE 5 R/B
activePayloadHEO
MAQSAT & ARIANE 5 R/B is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on February 12, 2005 into HEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 12, 2005 at 09:03 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- XTAR-EUR, Maqsat-B2, Sloshsat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 31,380 km
- Periapsis
- 253 km
- Inclination
- 7.19°
- Orbital period
- 548.45 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 8,496 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-005D
- NORAD catalog №
- 28545
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 27.6465 m²
- Status
- active
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