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SES-19

NORAD 55971· COSPAR 2023-038B· 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 2026-10-21 14:41 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
SES S.A.
Country
SES
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Mar 17, 2023
Mass
—
Apogee
35,801 km
Perigee
35,788 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Part of the SES constellation · this satellite is one of 20 (planned: 70)

Global GEO + MEO (O3b) comms fleet.

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for SES-19 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
-0.3 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
35788 × 35801 km
357943580335786May 28Oct 24
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).

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