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SBS 2
Geostationary communications satellite. SBS 2 was launched on September 24, 1981 aboard a Delta 3910/PAM from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: renamed (July 1985).
COSPAR 1981-096ANORAD 12855United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- SBS 2
- International designator
- 1981-096A
- NORAD catalog number
- 12855
- GCAT identifier
- S12855
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/059
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- SBS
- Owner
- SBS
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Hughes Space and Comms. Co (Hughes Satellite Systems)
- Platform (bus)
- HS-376
Launch
- Date
- September 24, 1981 · 23:09 UTC
- Launch record
- 1981-096Success
- Rocket
- Delta 3910/PAM
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC17A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/D
- Perigee
- 35,492 km
- Apogee
- 35,621 km
- Inclination
- 0.24°
- Status
- Renamed
- Status date
- July 1985
- Last known active
- Sep 7, 1996
- End of operations
- Sep 7, 1996
Size
- Mass
- 521 kg
- Dry mass
- 424 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 1,064 kg
- Length
- 6.6 m
- Diameter
- 2.20 m
- Span
- 6.6 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q14771273 (CC0).