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NORAD 42949 · Payload · In orbit since 2017

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Launched: 2017-10-15 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator: US (United States)
Object type: Payload
Purpose: Communications
Mass: 5,600 kg
Size: 6 × 3 m · 35 m deployed
Orbit class: GEO (geosynchronous)
Perigee × Apogee: 35,778 × 35,796 km
Inclination: 3.1°
Period: 1435.8 min
Eccentricity: 0.0002
Orbit data: Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).