Communications
INTELSAT 5 (IS-5)
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 28, 1997 at 12:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- PAS 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,144 km
- Periapsis
- 36,129 km
- Inclination
- 10.39°
- Orbital period
- 1454.02 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Intelsat S.A.
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Space and Communications Co.
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 2,730 kg
- Dry mass
- 2,519 kg
- Power
- 9,700 W
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24916
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 25.1189 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational