Geostationary
OPTUS D3
Australian Commercial / Government Communications · Optus / Australia
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Australia's satellite television and broadband platform, with specific capacity allocated for Australia's military and government requirements. Optus D3 supports Australian defense communications and provides the government-assured capacity that Australia needs for emergency management coordination across its vast territory during bushfires, floods, and cyclones — natural disasters that regularly affect Australia's remote and communications-deprived inland regions.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,231–22,253 mi (35,777–35,813 km)
- Inclination
- 0.8°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 35756
- Int’l designator
- 2009-044B
- Launched
- 2009
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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