Payload
DIRECTV 9S
OperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 13, 2006 at 08:56 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- DirecTV-9S, Optus D1, LDREX-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,807 km
- Periapsis
- 35,766 km
- Inclination
- 2.41°
- Orbital period
- 1436.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DirecTV, Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,500 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,364 kg
- Power
- 13,900 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29494
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 271.1266 m²
- Status
- Operational
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