Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Astrometric catalog. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1989-062; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 8 August 1989, 23:25:53 UTC
- Launch location
- Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, Guyane Francaise
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 44LP
- Orbit
- Geostationary transfer orbit
Flight data
Launch intelligence
An Arianespace Ariane 4 rocket launched the TV-SAT 2 mission on Tuesday, August 8, 1989 at 11:25 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Arianespace
- Vehicle
- Ariane 4
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1989-062
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Aug 8, 1989, 23:25 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Aug 08 1989
- Pad and location
- ELA-2, Guiana Space Centre
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 15 August 1993
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Hipparcos
Astrometric catalog.
- GCAT ID
- S20169
- Manufacturer
- Matra Marconi Space (Toulouse)
- Launch mass
- 610 kg
- Propulsion
- Mage 2
- Dimensions
- 3.5 m long · 2.5 m diameter · 5.5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
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Verification
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