Communications
INTELSAT 17 (IS-17)
OperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 26, 2010 at 06:39 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Intelsat 17 & HYLAS 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,798 km
- Periapsis
- 35,776 km
- Orbital period
- 1436.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Intelsat S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,540 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,393 kg
- Design lifetime
- 16 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2010-065B
- NORAD catalog №
- 37238
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 6.3096 m²
- Status
- Operational
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