Payload
SUPERBIRD-A3
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SUPERBIRD-A3 is a Japan payload satellite, launched on July 28, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 28, 1997 at 01:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIAS →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Superbird 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,157 km
- Periapsis
- 36,097 km
- Inclination
- 12.06°
- Orbital period
- 1453.53 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 3,102.08 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-036A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24880
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 12.5892 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational