Payload
SUPERBIRD-A2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SUPERBIRD-A2 is a Japan payload satellite, launched on April 16, 2004 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 16, 2004 at 12:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Superbird A2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,142 km
- Periapsis
- 35,891 km
- Inclination
- 13.45°
- Orbital period
- 1447.85 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 3,100 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28218
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 5.0118 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational