COMSATBW-2
Launch
Launched on May 21, 2010 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Astra 3B & COMSATBw-2 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 22:07 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Bundeswehr
Country
Germany
Manufacturer
Thales Alenia Space
Launched
May 21, 2010
Mass
2,500 kg
Apogee
35,808 km
Perigee
35,780 km
Inclination
0.05°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for COMSATBW-2 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.1 km
Rate
+0.00 km/day
Now
35781 × 35808 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 2010-021 (Ariane 5 ECA | Astra 3B & COMSATBw-2).
- ASTRA 3B · 36581
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