Space AtlasDIRECTV 3 (DBS 3)
NORAD 23598 · Payload · In orbit since 1995
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1995-06-10 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,934 kg
- Size
- 4.7 × 2.3 m · 26.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,135 × 36,158 km
- Inclination
- 12.1°
- Period
- 1454.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003
- 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.