Payload
OPTUS B2 (AUSSAT B2)
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPTUS B2 (AUSSAT B2) is a Australia payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1992 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1992 at 11:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 2E →
- Operator
- Ministry of Aerospace Industry
- Mission
- Optus B2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 133 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 28.11°
- Orbital period
- 87.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Australia
- Launch mass
- 1,567.89 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-090A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22278
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 6.9029 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 29, 1995
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 29, 1995
- Time in service
- 2.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed