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HELLAS-SAT 3

NORAD 42814· COSPAR 2017-040A· Active satellite· Communications· GEO
Launch
Launched on Jun 28, 2017 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Hellas Sat 3 (Inmarsat S EAN) & GSAT-17
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 10:51 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Hellas Sat
Country
Greece
Manufacturer
Thales Alenia Space
Launched
Jun 28, 2017
Mass
5,780 kg
Apogee
35,803 km
Perigee
35,787 km
Inclination
0.06°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Inmarsat S/Hellas Sat 3 is a satellite owned by Hellas Sat. It was launched on 28 June 2017, 21:15 UTC to replace the Hellas Sat 2 satellite.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for HELLAS-SAT 3 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Raising
Change
+1.4 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35787 × 35803 km
357943581735770May 28Sep 9
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 2017-040 (Ariane 5 ECA | Hellas Sat 3 (Inmarsat S EAN) & GSAT-17).

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