SKY MUSTER 2 (NBN1B)
Launch
Launched on Oct 5, 2016 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Sky Muster II (NBN-Co 1B) & GSAT-18 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 11:22 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Australian Space Agency
Country
Australia
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Oct 5, 2016
Mass
—
Apogee
35,802 km
Perigee
35,788 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SKY MUSTER 2 (NBN1B) 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
35788 × 35802 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 2016-060 (Ariane 5 ECA | Sky Muster II (NBN-Co 1B) & GSAT-18).
- GSAT-18 · 41793
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