Payload
HGS 1 (ASIASAT 3)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 25126
HGS 1 (ASIASAT 3) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 24, 1997 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 1997 at 11:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Asiasat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,001 km
- Periapsis
- 35,568 km
- Inclination
- 13.16°
- Orbital period
- 1435.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,511.4 kg
- Dimensions
- 4 × 3.1 × 3.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-086A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25126
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 8.0877 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational