Payload
GALAXY 26 (G-26)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 25626
GALAXY 26 (G-26) is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 15, 1999 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 15, 1999 at 05:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Telstar 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,157 km
- Periapsis
- 36,137 km
- Inclination
- 11.63°
- Orbital period
- 1454.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,670 kg
- Dimensions
- 5.3 × 2.4 × 2.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25626
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 31.9872 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational