SKY MEXICO-1
Launch
Launched on May 27, 2015 from Ariane Launch Area 3, French Guiana aboard a Ariane 5 ECA.
Ariane 5 ECA | DirecTV 15 & Sky Mexico 1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 12:01 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
—
Country
Mexico
Manufacturer
—
Launched
May 27, 2015
Mass
—
Apogee
35,807 km
Perigee
35,785 km
Inclination
0.02°
Period
23.94 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for SKY MEXICO-1 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.6 km
Rate
+0.01 km/day
Now
35785 × 35807 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 2015-026 (Ariane 5 ECA | DirecTV 15 & Sky Mexico 1).
- DIRECTV 15 · 40663
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