Communications
INTELSAT 23 (IS-23)
OperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 2012 at 08:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- International Launch Services
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,788 km
- Periapsis
- 35,787 km
- Inclination
- 0.01°
- Orbital period
- 1436.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Intelsat S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,200 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,503 kg
- Design lifetime
- 18 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38867
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 113.2145 m²
- Status
- Operational