SKYNET 5C
Launch
Launched on Jun 12, 2008 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Türksat 3A & Skynet 5C →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 18:33 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Astrium
Country
United Kingdom
Manufacturer
Astrium
Launched
Jun 12, 2008
Mass
4,638 kg
Apogee
35,810 km
Perigee
35,779 km
Inclination
4.11°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Skynet 5C is the third of four Skynet 5 military communications satellites to be used by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SKYNET 5C across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.0 km
Rate
+0.00 km/day
Now
35779 × 35810 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2008-030 (Ariane 5 ECA | Türksat 3A & Skynet 5C).
- TURKSAT 3A · 33056
Sources & further reading
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