Payload
OPTUS B1 (AUSSAT B1)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 22087
OPTUS B1 (AUSSAT B1) is a Australia payload satellite, launched on August 13, 1992 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 13, 1992 at 11:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 2E →
- Operator
- Ministry of Aerospace Industry
- Mission
- Optus B1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,123 km
- Periapsis
- 36,052 km
- Inclination
- 12.93°
- Orbital period
- 1451.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Australia
- Launch mass
- 1,567.89 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.3 × 2.3 × 2.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-054A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22087
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 25.1188 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational