Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
Orbits are real (live SGP4) — press play to sweep the deployed group forward along their planes. Ascent path is a representation; true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Provider type
Government
Orbit
GSO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
Kazakhstan
Date
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:18:55 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4896 ever
Mission
American communications satellite scheduled to operate in GEO, but was left stranded in a too low transfer orbit due to a launch vehicle failure. It was sold to the US Department of Defense and operated from geosynchronous orbit.
Deployed payloads · 1