Payload
SBS 2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SBS 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 24, 1981 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 24, 1981 at 11:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3910/PAM →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- SBS 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,852 km
- Periapsis
- 35,813 km
- Inclination
- 10.27°
- Orbital period
- 1438.46 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 566.9 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-096A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12855
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 7.792 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational