INTELSAT 30 (IS-30)
Launch
Launched on Oct 16, 2014 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat-30 & ARSAT-1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 04:38 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Intelsat
Country
Intelsat
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Oct 16, 2014
Mass
—
Apogee
35,800 km
Perigee
35,791 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 30 (IS-30) across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.9 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35791 × 35800 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 2014-062 (Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat-30 & ARSAT-1).
- ARSAT 1 · 40272
Sources & further reading
Embed this satellite on your site
Free for editorial use. Attribution back to LowEarth is required.
<iframe src="https://lowearth.app/embed/40271" width="640" height="400" frameborder="0" allow="fullscreen"></iframe>