INTELSAT 6B (IS-6B)
NORAD 25585 · Payload · In orbit since 1998
View in the 3D atlas →- 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
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- 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.