INTELSAT 17 (IS-17)
Launch
Launched on Nov 26, 2010 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 17 & HYLAS 1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 21:56 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Intelsat
Country
Intelsat
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Nov 26, 2010
Mass
—
Apogee
35,805 km
Perigee
35,785 km
Inclination
0.01°
Period
23.94 h
Part of the Intelsat constellation · this satellite is one of 27 (planned: 50)
Global GEO comms fleet. ~50 active satellites.
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for INTELSAT 17 (IS-17) across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
-1.0 km
Rate
-0.01 km/day
Now
35784 × 35804 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 2010-065 (Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 17 & HYLAS 1).
- HYLAS 1 · 37237
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