APSTAR-9
NORAD 40982 · 2015-059A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- PRC
- Launch date
- 2015-10-16
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 88.21
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-05-25T04:24:58.394016Z
- Period
- 1,436.11 min
- Inclination
- 0.0583°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0001553
- Mean motion
- 1.00270642 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,780.4 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,793.5 km
- Semi-major
- 42,165.1 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 62.0524°
- Arg perigee
- 122.7580°
- Mean anomaly
- 266.2186°
- Rev number
- 3,889
§ Raw data
APSTAR-91 40982U 15059A 26145.18400919 -.00000268 00000+0 00000+0 0 99982 40982 0.0583 62.0524 0001553 122.7580 266.2186 1.00270642 38890
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/40982 · /tle
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