SES-12
Launch
Launched on Jun 4, 2018 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 4.
Falcon 9 Block 4 | SES-12 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 11:07 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
SES S.A.
Country
SES
Manufacturer
Airbus Defence and Space
Launched
Jun 4, 2018
Mass
—
Apogee
35,803 km
Perigee
35,788 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
SES-12 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES.
Full article on Wikipedia →Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SES-12 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.5 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35788 × 35803 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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