Payload
APSTAR-6
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 12, 2005 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- XICLF
- Launched by
- Long March 3B →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Apstar 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,311 km
- Periapsis
- 36,230 km
- Inclination
- 7.35°
- Orbital period
- 1460.9 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28638
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
China- Radar cross-section
- 31.6228 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational