Payload
OPTUS D3
OperationalPayloadGEONORAD 35756
OPTUS D3 is a Optus Communications (Parent: Singapore Telecom) payload satellite, launched on August 21, 2009 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 21, 2009 at 10:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- JCSAT-12 & Optus D3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,799 km
- Periapsis
- 35,775 km
- Inclination
- 0.87°
- Orbital period
- 1436.12 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 16, 2026 at 01:51 AM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Optus Communications (Parent: Singapore Telecom)
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,188 kg
- Power
- 5,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
- Dimensions
- 9 × 3.2 × 2.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-044B
- NORAD catalog №
- 35756
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Australia- Radar cross-section
- 6.3096 m²
- Status
- Operational
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