Space AtlasDIRECTV 8
NORAD 28659 · Payload · In orbit since 2005
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2005-05-22 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 3,711 kg
- Size
- 5.6 × 2.8 m · 31 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,773 × 35,800 km
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- Period
- 1435.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003
- Orbit data
- Live orbit: current tracking elements
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.