Payload
SPACEWAY 2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 16, 2005 at 11:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Spaceway F2, TELKOM-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,145 km
- Periapsis
- 36,114 km
- Inclination
- 5.46°
- Orbital period
- 1453.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DirecTV, Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,993 kg
- Dry mass
- 3,691 kg
- Power
- 12,300 W
- Design lifetime
- 12.5 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-046B
- NORAD catalog №
- 28903
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 7.9432 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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