Communications
EUTELSAT 1-F1 (ECS 1)
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 16, 1983 at 11:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 1 →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- ECS 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,223 km
- Periapsis
- 36,145 km
- Inclination
- 11.84°
- Orbital period
- 1456.44 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14128
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Eutelsat- Radar cross-section
- 3.1622 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational