Payload
SKYNET 2B
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 23, 1974 at 12:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2313 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Skynet IIB
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,767 km
- Periapsis
- 35,745 km
- Inclination
- 3.58°
- Orbital period
- 1434.52 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-094A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7547
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 3.1698 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational