GS-1

NORAD 56372· COSPAR 2023-060C· Active satellite· Communications· GEO

Launch

Launched on May 1, 2023 from Launch Complex 39A, United States of America aboard a Falcon Heavy.

Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-07 16:16 UTC

Orbit class

GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)

Operator

PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara

Country

United States

Manufacturer

Space Inventor

Launched

May 1, 2023

Mass

22 kg

Apogee

35,813 km

Perigee

35,788 km

Inclination

2.93°

Period

23.94 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for GS-1 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Raising

Change

+7.8 km

Rate

+0.08 km/day

Now

35788 × 35813 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

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-060 (Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others).

VIASAT-3 F1 · 56370
ARCTURUS · 56371

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