DIRECTV 9S
NORAD 29494 · 2006-043A
PAYLOAD ACTIVE UNKNOWN
§ Identity
- Operator
- —
- Country
- US
- Launch date
- 2006-10-13
- Launch site
- FRGUI
- Launch vehicle
- —
- Mass (kg)
- —
- RCS (m²)
- 271.13
Purposes: comms
External: N2YO · Heavens-Above · Gunter
§ Orbital elements
Epoch: 2026-09-15T18:09:50.804064Z
- Period
- 1,453.13 min
- Inclination
- 2.6495°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0006299
- Mean motion
- 0.99096139 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 36,092.7 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,146.2 km
- Semi-major
- 42,497.6 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 79.7112°
- Arg perigee
- 194.6058°
- Mean anomaly
- 201.2976°
- Rev number
- 5,229
§ Raw data
DIRECTV 9S1 29494U 06043A 26258.75683801 .00000014 00000+0 00000+0 0 99952 29494 2.6495 79.7112 0006299 194.6058 201.2976 0.99096139 52293
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/29494 · /tle
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