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: 2026-09-27T05:28:38.754912Z
- Period
- 1,453.10 min
- Inclination
- 2.6778°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007501
- Mean motion
- 0.99098346 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 36,086.9 km
- Apogee alt
- 36,150.7 km
- Semi-major
- 42,496.9 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 79.5500°
- Arg perigee
- 193.1103°
- Mean anomaly
- 335.4696°
- Rev number
- 5,240
§ Raw data
DIRECTV 9S1 29494U 06043A 26270.22822633 -.00000253 00000+0 00000+0 0 99952 29494 2.6778 79.5500 0007501 193.1103 335.4696 0.99098346 52402
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/29494 · /tle
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