Communications
GLOBALSTAR M072
OperationalCommunicationsLEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 29, 2007 at 08:31 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz-FG Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Globalstar 65,69,71,72
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,720 km
- Periapsis
- 1,717 km
- Inclination
- 51.99°
- Orbital period
- 120.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Globalstar
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral/Alenia Aerospazio
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 450 kg
- Dry mass
- 350 kg
- Power
- 1,500 W
- Design lifetime
- 10 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-020D
- NORAD catalog №
- 31574
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Globalstar- Radar cross-section
- 2.2696 m²
- Status
- Operational