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: 2026-09-19T18:31:38.867232Z
- Period
- 1,436.06 min
- Inclination
- 0.0404°
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002548
- Mean motion
- 1.00274052 rev/d
- Perigee alt
- 35,775.2 km
- Apogee alt
- 35,796.7 km
- Semi-major
- 42,164.1 km
- B*
- 0.0000e+0
- RAAN
- 47.4555°
- Arg perigee
- 126.5555°
- Mean anomaly
- 244.5988°
- Rev number
- 4,005
§ Raw data
APSTAR-91 40982U 15059A 26262.77197763 -.00000269 00000+0 00000+0 0 99942 40982 0.0404 47.4555 0002548 126.5555 244.5988 1.00274052 40051
JSON: /api/v1/satellites/40982 · /tle
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