Payload
DIRECTV 12
OperationalPayloadGEO
DIRECTV 12 is a DirecTV, Inc. payload satellite, launched on December 29, 2009 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 29, 2009 at 12:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- DirecTV 12
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,788 km
- Periapsis
- 35,785 km
- Inclination
- 0.01°
- Orbital period
- 1436.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DirecTV, Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Space Systems
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5,900 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-075A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36131
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 14.1132 m²
- Status
- Operational