SES-18

NORAD 55970· COSPAR 2023-038A· Active satellite· Communications· GEO

Launch

Launched on Mar 17, 2023 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-18 & SES-19 →

SES satellite (representative) — Representative SES image · SpaceX Photos · CC0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 11:54 UTC

Orbit class

GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)

Operator

SES S.A.

Country

SES

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Mar 17, 2023

Mass

—

Apogee

35,804 km

Perigee

35,786 km

Inclination

0.06°

Period

23.94 h

Part of the SES constellation · this satellite is one of 20 (planned: 70)

Global GEO + MEO (O3b) comms fleet.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for SES-18 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

35786 × 35804 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 2023-038 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | SES-18 & SES-19).

SES-19 · 55971

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