Payload
SKYNET 4A
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SKYNET 4A is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on January 1, 1990 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 1, 1990 at 12:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Commercial Titan III →
- Operator
- Martin Marietta
- Mission
- Skynet 4A & JCSat 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,205 km
- Periapsis
- 36,091 km
- Inclination
- 12.5°
- Orbital period
- 1454.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 782.95 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20401
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 8.1093 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational