SES-4

NORAD 38087· COSPAR 2012-007A· Active satellite· Communications· GEO

Launch

Launched on Feb 14, 2012 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.

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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

0.03°

Period

23.94 h

Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

SES-4 is a communications satellite operated by SES World Skies.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for SES-4 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-1.5 km

Rate

-0.01 km/day

Now

35786 × 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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