Optus B3

Success China Aerospace Corporation, Long March 2E

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Mission

Communications · Direct-GEO

Australian communications satellite built by Hughes Space and Communications Company in California.

What it put in orbit

ObjectTypeOrbit
OPTUS B3 1994-055A Payload 36225 × 36241 km · 12.6° Globe
CZ-2E R/B 1994-055B Rocket body re-entered 1994-12-27
OPTUS B3 PKM 1994-055C Rocket body 392 × 37739 km · 24.1° Globe

COSPAR ID 1994-055. Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).

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