Payload
DIRECTV 2 (DBS 2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
DIRECTV 2 (DBS 2) is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 3, 1994 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 3, 1994 at 11:57 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- DirecTV 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,295 km
- Periapsis
- 36,208 km
- Inclination
- 12.91°
- Orbital period
- 1459.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,711.6 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23192
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 13.583 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational