Space AtlasINTELSAT 501
NORAD 12474 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-05-23 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- ITSO (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 945 kg
- Size
- 6.4 × 2 m · 15.9 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,174 × 36,206 km
- Inclination
- 10.9°
- Period
- 1456.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0004
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.