Payload
DIRECTV 6 (TEMPO 2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
DIRECTV 6 (TEMPO 2) is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 8, 1997 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 8, 1997 at 06:01 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Tempo 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,248 km
- Periapsis
- 36,028 km
- Inclination
- 13.12°
- Orbital period
- 1454.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,418.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24748
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 12.5892 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational