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NORAD 36131 · Payload · In orbit since 2009
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2009-12-29 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 5,900 kg
- Size
- 8 × 3.3 m · 48.1 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,786 × 35,787 km
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- Period
- 1435.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0000
- 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.