COMSATBW-1
Launch
Launched on Oct 1, 2009 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Amazonas 2 & COMSATBw-1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 09:16 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Bundeswehr
Country
Germany
Manufacturer
Astrium
Launched
Oct 1, 2009
Mass
2,440 kg
Apogee
35,807 km
Perigee
35,782 km
Inclination
0.04°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for COMSATBW-1 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.8 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35782 × 35807 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 2009-054 (Ariane 5 ECA | Amazonas 2 & COMSATBw-1).
- AMAZONAS 2 · 35942
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