Payload
AZERSPACE 1
OperationalPayloadGEONORAD 39079
AZERSPACE 1 is a Azercosmos payload satellite, launched on February 7, 2013 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 7, 2013 at 09:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Azerspace-1/Africasat-1a & Amazonas 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,792 km
- Periapsis
- 35,780 km
- Orbital period
- 1436.07 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Azercosmos
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 3,238 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,438 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
- Dimensions
- 5.6 × 2.5 × 2.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-006B
- NORAD catalog №
- 39079
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Azerbaijan- Radar cross-section
- 50.1187 m²
- Status
- Operational
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