Payload
SUPERBIRD-C2
OperationalPayloadGEO
SUPERBIRD-C2 is a Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation payload satellite, launched on August 14, 2008 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 14, 2008 at 08:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- AMC-21 & Superbird 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,812 km
- Periapsis
- 35,762 km
- Inclination
- 2.35°
- Orbital period
- 1436.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation
- Manufacturer
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4,820 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 33274
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 12.6191 m²
- Status
- Operational
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