SES-4
Launch
Launched on Feb 14, 2012 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M Briz-M | SES-4 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 08:51 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
SES
Country
SES
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Feb 14, 2012
Mass
—
Apogee
35,805 km
Perigee
35,785 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
SES-4 is a communications satellite operated by SES World Skies.
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SES-4 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-1.4 km
Rate
-0.01 km/day
Now
35785 × 35805 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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