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Satellite · NORAD 22278 · COSPAR 1992-090A

OPTUS B2 (AUSSAT B2)

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived
  • Operator Australia
  • Constellation —
  • Country Australia

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

28.11°

Period

87.1 min

87.1 min

Perigee

125km

Apogee

133km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 29 Jun 1995.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 29 Jun 1995 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
6.9 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • OPTUS B2 (AUSSAT B2)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
AUS · Australia
Country
Australia AU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
21 Dec 1992
COSPAR launch id
1992-090
Launch site
Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
22278
COSPAR / international designator
1992-090A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPQ1TJ0CCHDN3W5651K
Canonical slug
optus-b2-aussat-b2-22278

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.