Payload
GALAXY 23 (G-23)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 27854
GALAXY 23 (G-23) is a Echostar Satellite Services, LLC/Intelsat payload satellite, launched on August 8, 2003 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 8, 2003 at 03:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Sea Launch (Odyssey, Pacific)
- Launched by
- Zenit 3SL →
- Operator
- Sea Launch
- Mission
- Echostar IX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,167 km
- Periapsis
- 36,152 km
- Inclination
- 3.19°
- Orbital period
- 1455.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Echostar Satellite Services, LLC/Intelsat
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4,737 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,500 kg
- Design lifetime
- 13 years
- Dimensions
- 5.6 × 2.8 × 2.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-034A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27854
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 36.9723 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational