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O3B FM13
O3B FM13 was launched on March 9, 2018 aboard a Soyuz-ST-B from Kourou. Latest status in GCAT: renamed (Apr 2, 2025).
COSPAR 2018-024DNORAD 43234United Kingdom
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- O3b FM13
- Common name
- O3B FM13
- Payload designation
- O3b 13
- International designator
- 2018-024D
- NORAD catalog number
- 43234
- GCAT identifier
- S43234
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/847
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- O3b
- Owner
- O3B SES
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Builder
- Thales Alenia Space
- Platform (bus)
- Prisma?
Launch
- Date
- March 9, 2018 · 17:10 UTC
- Launch record
- 2018-024Success
- Rocket
- Soyuz-ST-B
- Spaceport
- Kourou · pad ELS
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 8,062 km
- Apogee
- 8,069 km
- Inclination
- 0.05°
- Status
- Renamed
- Status date
- April 2, 2025
- Last known active
- February 2023
Size
- Mass
- 700 kg
- Dry mass
- 500 kg
- Length
- 4.0 m
- Diameter
- 2.00 m
- Span
- 12.0 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q18478488 (CC0).