Payload
OPTUS C1
OperationalPayloadGEO
OPTUS C1 is a Optus Communications (Parent: Singapore Telecom)/Australian Ministry of Defense payload satellite, launched on June 11, 2003 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 11, 2003 at 10:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Optus and Defence C1 & BSAT-2c
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,809 km
- Periapsis
- 35,763 km
- Inclination
- 6.88°
- Orbital period
- 1436.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Optus Communications (Parent: Singapore Telecom)/Australian Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Military/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4,725 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,000 kg
- Power
- 10,600 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-028B
- NORAD catalog №
- 27831
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 25.1188 m²
- Status
- Operational