Payload
OPTUS B3
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
OPTUS B3 is a Australia payload satellite, launched on August 27, 1994 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 27, 1994 at 11:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 2E →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Corporation
- Mission
- Optus B3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,259 km
- Periapsis
- 36,208 km
- Inclination
- 12.35°
- Orbital period
- 1459 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Australia
- Launch mass
- 1,567.89 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-055A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23227
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 26.3778 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational