TELSTAR 12 (ORION 2)
NORAD 25949 · Payload · In orbit since 1999
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1999-10-19 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 3,787 kg
- Size
- 3.1 × 2.4 m · 31.1 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,254 × 36,326 km
- Inclination
- 8.8°
- Period
- 1461.5 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.