SES-6
Launch
Launched on Jun 3, 2013 from 200/39 (200L), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M Briz-M | SES-6 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 10:29 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
SES S.A.
Country
SES
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Jun 3, 2013
Mass
—
Apogee
35,805 km
Perigee
35,785 km
Inclination
0.06°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
SES-6 is a commercial geostationary communication satellite owned and operated by SES
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SES-6 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.1 km
Rate
+0.00 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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