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Satellite · NORAD 18350 · COSPAR 1987-078A

OPTUS A3 (AUSSAT 3)

UnknownPayloadGEOCommunications derived
  • Operator Australia
  • Constellation —
  • Country Australia

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

14.37°

Period

1.0 d

1,455.9 min

Perigee

36,155km

Apogee

36,192km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 23 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
15.8 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • OPTUS A3 (AUSSAT 3)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
AUS · Australia
Country
Australia AU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Sept 1987
COSPAR launch id
1987-078
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 6

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
18350
COSPAR / international designator
1987-078A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JP1D693V3WCE2XM2GP2
Canonical slug
optus-a3-aussat-3-18350

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.