Payload
TELECOM 1A
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
TELECOM 1A is a France payload satellite, launched on August 4, 1984 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 4, 1984 at 01:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 3 →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- ECS 2 & Télécom 1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,474 km
- Periapsis
- 36,169 km
- Inclination
- 12.76°
- Orbital period
- 1463.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 677.9 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-081B
- NORAD catalog №
- 15159
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 10.1506 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational