Payload
ABS-6
OperationalPayloadGEO
ABS-6 is a Asia Broadcast Satellite Ltd. payload satellite, launched on September 26, 1999 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 26, 1999 at 10:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- LMI 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,801 km
- Periapsis
- 35,773 km
- Orbital period
- 1436.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Asia Broadcast Satellite Ltd.
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,600 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,730 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-053A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25924
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- Asia Broadcast Satellite
- Radar cross-section
- 39.8107 m²
- Status
- Operational