SES-7 (PROTOSTAR 2)
Launch
Launched on May 16, 2009 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M Briz-M | SES-7 (Indostar 2/ProtoStar 2) →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 22:34 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
ProtoStar
Country
SES
Manufacturer
—
Launched
May 16, 2009
Mass
—
Apogee
35,802 km
Perigee
35,788 km
Inclination
0.07°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
SES-7 is a commercial communications satellite operated by SES World Skies.
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SES-7 (PROTOSTAR 2) across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
-0.4 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
35787 × 35801 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.
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