Satellite · NORAD 26243 · COSPAR 2000-019A
EUTELSAT 16C
- Operator Eutelsat
- Constellation Eutelsat GEO fleet
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
11.06°
Period
1.0 d
1,455.2 min
Perigee
36,137km
Apogee
36,184km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- 0.0 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Eutelsat GEO fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EUTELSAT 16CCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Apr 2000
- COSPAR launch id
- 2000-019
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-12 PLAT26245DebrisDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(1)26244Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)26246Rocket bodyInactive
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)26710Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)26711Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 26243
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2000-019A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQD826S78PW6XAN354M
- Canonical slug
- eutelsat-16c-26243
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.