Payload
FLTSATCOM 5
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
FLTSATCOM 5 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 6, 1981 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 6, 1981 at 08:16 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- FLTSATCOM 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,299 km
- Periapsis
- 36,222 km
- Inclination
- 13.89°
- Orbital period
- 1460.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,020.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-073A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12635
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 9.4977 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational