DIRECTV 9S
Launch
Launched on Oct 13, 2006 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | DirecTV-9S, Optus D1, LDREX-2 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 22:17 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
United States Government
Country
United States
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Oct 13, 2006
Mass
—
Apogee
36,168 km
Perigee
36,089 km
Inclination
2.75°
Period
1.01 d
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for DIRECTV 9S across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Raising
Change
+333.8 km
Rate
+2.25 km/day
Now
36089 × 36168 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2006-043 (Ariane 5 ECA | DirecTV-9S, Optus D1, LDREX-2).
- OPTUS D1 · 29495
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