DIRECTV 8
NORAD 28659 · 2005-019A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2005-05-22
- Launch site
- TYMSC
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 16.67
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-14T21:47:20.315328Z
- Period
- 1,436.08 min
- Inclination
- 0.0191°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002947
- Mean motion
- 1.00272722 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,773.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,798.8 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.5 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 161.8447°
- Arg perigee
- 14.7343°
- Mean anomaly
- 25.0842°
- Rev number
- 7,797
§ Raw data
DIRECTV 81 28659U 05019A 26257.90787402 -.00000006 00000+0 00000+0 0 99992 28659 0.0191 161.8447 0002947 14.7343 25.0842 1.00272722 77972
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/28659 · /tle
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