SES-2
Launch
Launched on Sep 21, 2011 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Arabsat 5C & SES-2 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 11:23 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
SES S.A.
Country
SES
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Sep 21, 2011
Mass
—
Apogee
35,807 km
Perigee
35,783 km
Inclination
0.27°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
SES-2 is a communications satellite operated by SES. It was launched alongside the Arabsat-5C satellite.
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SES-2 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.5 km
Rate
+0.00 km/day
Now
35783 × 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 2011-049 (Ariane 5 ECA | Arabsat 5C & SES-2).
- ARABSAT-5C · 37810
Sources & further reading
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