Payload
SKYNET 4B
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SKYNET 4B is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on December 11, 1988 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 11, 1988 at 12:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44LP →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Skynet 4B & Astra 1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,971 km
- Periapsis
- 35,939 km
- Inclination
- 13.11°
- Orbital period
- 1444.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 782.95 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-109A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19687
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 2.3056 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational