Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
SpaceX
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
GTO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Fri, 07 Apr 2023 04:30:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#6425 ever
Go probability
90%
Mission
Intelsat 40e is an advanced geostationary satellite that will provide Intelsat’s government and enterprise customers across North and Central America with high-throughput, “coast-to-coast” services. The satellite’s capabilities will support the growing number of customers that depend on Intelsat’s managed services and solutions to easily integrate satellite into their overall networking and communications strategies. Hosted on the Intelsat 40e satellite is NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO), an Earth science instrument that will observe air pollution over North America in unprecedented detail.
Deployed payloads · 1