Payload
TELECOM 2D
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
TELECOM 2D is a France payload satellite, launched on August 8, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 8, 1996 at 10:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Italsat F2 & Télécom 2D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,378 km
- Periapsis
- 36,233 km
- Inclination
- 13.06°
- Orbital period
- 1462.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 1,387.51 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-044B
- NORAD catalog №
- 24209
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 12.5119 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational