Payload
OPTUS A2 (AUSSAT 2)
activePayloadGEONORAD 16275
OPTUS A2 (AUSSAT 2) is a Australia payload satellite, launched on November 27, 1985 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 27, 1985 at 12:29 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-61-B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,898 km
- Periapsis
- 35,864 km
- Inclination
- 13.36°
- Orbital period
- 1440.95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Australia
- Launch mass
- 644.2 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.2 × 6.59 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-109C
- NORAD catalog №
- 16275
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 0.7943 m²
- Status
- active
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