Mission type | Communication |
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Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 2002-055A |
SATCAT no. | 27566 |
Mission duration | Planned: 20 years Elapsed: 20 years, 4 months, 4 days |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | BSS-601 |
Manufacturer | Boeing SDC |
Launch mass | 3,180 kg (7,010 lb) [1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 5 December 2002, 02:42 UTC |
Rocket | Atlas IIA |
Launch site | Cape Canaveral SLC-36A |
Contractor | ILS |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Geostationary |
Longitude | 153° West 151° West ~42-40° West (2004—) |
Perigee altitude | 35,766 kilometers (22,224 mi) [2] |
Apogee altitude | 35,798 kilometers (22,244 mi) [2] |
Inclination | 6.09 degrees [2] |
Period | 1435.86 minutes [2] |
Epoch | 1 January 2004 [2] |
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