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INTELSAT 6B (IS-6B)

NORAD 25585 · Payload · In orbit since 1998

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Launched
1998-12-22 · Kourou, French Guiana
Country / operator
US (United States)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
3,594 kg
Size
6 × 2.8 m · 26.2 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
36,028 × 36,178 km
Inclination
12.4°
Period
1451.9 min
Eccentricity
0.0018
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.