DIRECTV 2 (DBS 2)
NORAD 23192 · Payload · In orbit since 1994
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1994-08-03 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,921 kg
- Size
- 4 × 2.8 m · 21 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,217 × 36,286 km
- Inclination
- 13.0°
- Period
- 1459.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0008
- 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.