Payload
THAICOM 5
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 27, 2006 at 09:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Satmex 6 & Thaicom 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,101 km
- Periapsis
- 36,078 km
- Inclination
- 6°
- Orbital period
- 1451.59 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-020B
- NORAD catalog №
- 29163
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Thailand- Radar cross-section
- 34.2637 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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