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OTS 2
Decommissioned experimental European communications satellite. OTS 2 was launched on May 11, 1978 aboard a Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1978-044ANORAD 10855European Space Agency
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- OTS 2
- Payload designation
- OTS B
- International designator
- 1978-044A
- NORAD catalog number
- 10855
- GCAT identifier
- S10855
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.376
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- OTS
- Owner
- ESA
- Country
- European Space Agency
- Builder
- MESH Consortium (MATRA, ERNO, SAAB, HSD)
- Platform (bus)
- OTS
Launch
- Date
- May 11, 1978 · 22:59 UTC
- Launch record
- 1978-044Success
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC17A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,777 km
- Apogee
- 35,794 km
- Inclination
- 0.06°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- January 1991
- End of operations
- January 1991
Size
- Mass
- 431 kg
- Dry mass
- 365 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 865 kg
- Length
- 1.6 m
- Diameter
- 2.40 m
- Span
- 9.3 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q16061289 (CC0).