Satellite · NORAD 22653 · COSPAR 1993-031A
ASTRA 1C
- Operator SES
- Constellation SES GEO fleet
- Country Luxembourg
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
12.97°
Period
1.0 d
1,456.9 min
Perigee
36,183km
Apogee
36,201km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 14.1 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- SES GEO fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ASTRA 1CCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- SES
- SATCAT owner code
- SES · SES
- Country
- Luxembourg LU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 May 1993
- COSPAR launch id
- 1993-031
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 42L DEB [SPELDA]22656DebrisDecayed
- ARSENE (AO-24)22654PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 42L R/B22655Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 22653
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1993-031A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPSDVCGT5X3ZBR86GGK
- Canonical slug
- astra-1c-22653
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.