SES 12

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SES 12 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 43488

Int'l Code: 2018-049A

Perigee: 35,788.4 km

Apogee: 35,799.3 km

Inclination: 0.0 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 4, 2018
Source: SOCIETE EUROPEENNE DES SATELLITES (SES)
Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR)

SES-12 is a commercial geostationary communications satellite designed to provide service for companies, homes, airplanes and ships across much of the Eastern Hemisphere. At 95 degrees east longitude, SES-12 will be co-located with the SES-8 communications satellite, which launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in 2013. SES 12 replaces telecom capacity currently provided by the aging NSS 6 launched by an Ariane 4 rocket in 2002. The SES-12 and SES-8 satellites together will reach 18 million television homes, beaming HD and Ultra HD programming to customers in the Middle East, South Asia, the Asia-Pacific, and across Australia and neighboring islands. The high-throughput payload aboard SES 12 will support broadband Internet and data services for remote users, airplane passengers, cruise ships and merchant vessels.

1 43488U 18049A   24117.51227161 -.00000255  00000-0  00000+0 0  9991
2 43488   0.0459  70.6374 0001299 251.9273 171.8584  1.00271361 21574

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC